Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
- Thomas More

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 occasion.
- Thomas More

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
- Thomas More

Let them speak as lewdly as they list of me...as long as they do not hit me, what am I the worse?
- Thomas More

Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
- Thomas More

A happy state of society will never be achieved, until philosophers are kings, or kings take to studying philosophy.
- Thomas More

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
- Thomas More

And as robbers prove sometimes gallant soldiers, so soldiers often prove brave robbers, so near an alliance there is between those two sorts of life.
- Thomas More

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
- Thomas More

Pride . . . measureth not wealth and prosperity by her own commodities, but by the misery and incommodities of other...
- Thomas More

Many a man buyeth hell with so much pain, that he might have heaven with less than the one half.
- Thomas More

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
- Thomas More

When public judicatories are swayed by avarice or partiality, justice, the grand sinew of society, is lost.
- Thomas More