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

“Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”

“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.”

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