There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

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

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

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

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

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Dance to the music of your soul.

You've ruined me, baby. I'm yours...you've got me under your spell.

You’re talking about gold and silver, cash and securities. I’m talking about the sheer beauty of the land, the value of unpolluted parkland made wild and staying wild forever.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.

I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately.

I have an amazing ability to forget.

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

I always try to do something for my husband that's completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.