Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

The end crowneth the work.

The word must is not to be used to princes.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.