"... Thomas More, who was the chief magistrate of his country, whose heart was whiter than snow, a genius such as England never had before, nor ever will have again ..." ........ Erasmus, Ecclesiastes, Preface, August 1535.
"He is a dangerous patron and a dangerous friend, 'a nuisance of a saint,' who never believed in being carried to heaven on a featherbed. He will not teach us an easy way, but he will show us where we can find the comfort we need to suffer our freely accepted discomforts." ........ Fr. Germain Marc'hadour, "Obedient unto Death: A Key to St. Thomas More", Spiritual Life, n.s., 7 (fall 1961): 216-18, 221.