“Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.”

“People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.”

“When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.”

“Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.)”

“Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.”

“I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.”

“And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.”