Thomas More — "They have no hunting among them, for they look upon it as the basest sort of spo…"

"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."

"And albeit, Master Rich, that I have in my time, as I think, as great a mind as any man, to please the King, yet I never thought, nor never will think, but that my soul is more to me than my body."

"The most part of all your princes have more delight in warlike matters and the feats of hunting than in the good arts of peace."

"They detest war as a very brutal thing, and which, to the reproach of human nature, is more practiced by beasts than by men."

"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."