Quotes by Roger Ascham

"For I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning as is praise."

"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."

"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."