“What is deferred is not avoided.”

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

“Let them speak as lewdly as they list of me...as long as they do not hit me, what am I the worse?”

“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.”

“The Utopians call those nations that come and ask magistrates from them Neighbours; but those to whom they have been of more particular service, Friends; and as all other nations are perpetually either making leagues or breaking them, they never enter into an alliance with any state. They think leagues are useless things, and believe that if the common ties of humanity do not knit men together, the faith of promises will have no great effect; and they are the more confirmed in this by what they see among the nations round about them, who are no strict observers of leagues and treaties.”

“Anticipated spears wound less.”

“The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.”