“Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation.”
![“Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy…” quote by Neal A. Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3c7/neal-a-maxwell-925_clothes_sir-thomas-more-was-a-victim-of-injustic_356646.jpg)
![“I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink from any act of servility if the need arose, and was incapable of gratitude. In which he resembled the majority of mankind.” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d80/marcel-proust-114_gratitude_i-concluded-all-the-same-from-this-first_3206472.jpg)
