I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

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

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?