"Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord..."
- Thomas More
"The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked."
"But Nature granted to gold and silver no function with which we cannot easily dispense. Human folly has made them precious because they are rare. In contrast, Nature, like a most indulgent mother, has..."
"It was evidently quite obvious to a powerful intellect like his that the one essential condition for a healthy society was equal distribution of goods - which I suspect is impossible under capitalism...."
"Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance."
"As God loves me, when I consider this, then every modern society seems to me to be nothing but a conspiracy of the rick, who while protesting their interest in the common good pursue their own interes..."
"...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the misery of others; and wo..."
"See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets beat the drums!"
- Thomas Morell
"Alas! how light a cause may move dissention between hearts that love!"
"The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close."