The past cannot be cured.

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.

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

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst