“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

“We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.”

Reminder that the path to heaven requires hardship rather than comfort · Remark to his children, reported in Roper’s Life

• Faith
• Heaven
• Suffering

“I never intend, God being my good Lord, to pin my soul to another man’s back, not even the best man that I know this day living: for I know not where he may hap to carry it.”

Personal responsibility for conscience cannot be delegated to any other person · Dialogue with his daughter Margaret, Tower of London, August 1534

• Conscience
• Faith
• Responsibility