W. M. Ashley > W. M.'s Quotes

“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.”
― Sir Thomas More

“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.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

“The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.”
― Sir Thomas More

“God, a mystery,
We, a visible truth,
He lives within us,
We find him in books.”
― Neymat Khan