If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.