I don’t suppose she would be a bad wife, for somebody who was prepared to keep her chained to the wall. - Hilary Mantel

The king turns, he looks at him, astonished. “You are not of Thomas More’s opinion, are you?”
He waits. He cannot imagine what the king is going to say.
“La chasse. He thinks it barbaric.”
“Oh, I see. No, Your Majesty, I favor any sport that’s cheaper than battle.”

The multitude," Cavendish says, "is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down—for the novelty of the thing.

For what’s the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?