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. – Roger Ascham
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. – Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. – Roger Ascham
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. – Roger Ascham
To such as these we offer, with some confidence, and with no little sympathy, our collection of choice flowers, culled from the gardens of Poesy: may they refresh the mind, and gladden the heart, and beautify the path, of many a careworn toiler in the fields of labour, of whatsoever kind. – H.G. Adams, A Cyclopædia of Poetical Quotations; Consisting of Choice Passa