Friendship demands attention.

He travels best that knows when to return.

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

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.