This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.