It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
THOMAS MOREThe most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Friendship demands attention.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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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.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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