It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wis...
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.