He travels best that knows when to return.
THOMAS MOREThe times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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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.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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.
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