“Is that all, my lord? Then in good faith, is there no more difference between your grace and me, but that I shall die to-day and you to-morrow?”

Calm acceptance of the danger of opposing royal will, noting the shared mortality of all · Reply to the Duke of Norfolk, reported in Roper’s Life

• Courage
• Death
• Mortality

“I do nobody harm, I say none harm, I think none harm, but wish everybody good. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith, I long not to live.”

Declaration of harmless intent and readiness to accept death if innocence is insufficient · Letter to Margaret Roper, account of interrogation

• Conscience
• Integrity
• Life

“This hath not offended the king.”

Final jest separating the innocent beard from any charge of treason · On the scaffold, placing his beard aside (Bacon’s Apothegms; Roper’s Life)

• Death
• Humour
• Wit