The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.
Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.