Thomas More

“Alas!, how light a cause may move dissention between hearts that love!”

“The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close.”

“What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.”

“No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous...”

“Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.”

“And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.”

“There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.”

“They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet...”

“Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occ...”

“And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of...”

“Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.”

“The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.”

“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”

“A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.”

“I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.”