"If people would only be ruled by me————"
"Ay, but bad as things are, we are not come to such a pass as that yet."
"If people would only be ruled by me, old England would lift up her head again. In the first place I would reform the constitution."
"Beginning with your own, I hope, for that seems not to be over excellent. What next, I wonder!"
"There should be no places and pensions; no bribery and corruption; no taxes and oppression; but every man should have his rights, and a poor man should lift up his head as well as a rich man."
"If you could only rule yourself as well as you think you could rule the nation, it would at any rate be a good beginning."
"I would inclose all the waste lands in England, every one of them should be cultivated."
"Better by half weed your own little garden first, for it is sadly out of order."
"Every man's house, ay, the poorest among them, should have in it a flitch of good bacon."
"That is more than is ever likely to be found in yours, Master Hatfield, unless you live a very different life to what you now do."