In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by