It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had – yea, and that among very wise men – to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall.

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.