"They wonder much to hear that in this island, and in all the countries that are about it, there are so many who love to be idle, and yet live with luxury and splendor."

"If a lion knew his own strength, it were hard for any man to rule him."

"For in Utopia, where every man hath a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to develop the public stores, no private man can want anything."

"They count it a great reproach that so many men should be kept idle, as if the wealth of the whole country lay in the number of its beggars."

"I fear me, I shall never be able to answer the King's Grace in these matters, but with peril of my life."