I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue