C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Roger Ascham
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.
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
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.
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lady.
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.