For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a
good turn we write it in dust.
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
This hath not offended the king.
The island of Utopia is in the middle two hundred miles broad, and holds almost at the same breadth over a great part of it, but it grows narrower towards both ends.
I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: For we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion
They have but few laws, and such is their constitution that they need not many.
Other rocks lie under water, and are very dangerous. The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
In no victory do they glory so much as in that which is gained by dexterity and good conduct without bloodshed.