Roger Ascham Man Quotations

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

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.

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.