Quotes from Thomas More

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

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

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.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines.

Divine Providence has spread her table everywhere, not with a juiceless green carpet, but with succulent herbage and nourishing grass, upon which most beasts feed.

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

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

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself

If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devoted flame, thou say'st I speak too boldly

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.