It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace.

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 wise men allow him.