Utopialıların hiç anlamadıkları ve tiksindikleri bir başka delilik de şuydu: İnsanlar hiç alışverişleri olmayan bir zengine, salt zengindir diye bir … - Thomas More

The Utopians wonder that any man should be so enamoured of the lustre of a jewel, when he can behold a star or the sun

When a comedy of Plautus is being played, and the household slaves are cracking trivial jokes together, ou propose to come on stage in the garb of a philosopher, and repeat Seneca's speech to Nero from the Octavia. Wouldn't it be better to take a silent role than to say something wholly inappropriate, and thus turn the play into a tragi-comedy? You pervert a play and ruin it when you add irrelevant speeches, even if they are better than the play itself. So go through with the drama in hand as best you can, and don't spoil it all just because you happen to think of another that would be better.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.