His ascetic dreams were replaced by the affections of home.

It is when we get a glimpse of him in his house at Chelsea that we understand the endearing epithets which Erasmus always lavishes upon More.

The delight of the young husband was to train the girl he had chosen for his wife in his own taste for letters and for music.

The reserve which the age exacted from parents was thrown to the winds in More's intercourse with his children.

He loved teaching them, and lured them to their deeper studies by the coins and curiosities he had gathered in his cabinet.