The past cannot be cured.

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

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

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

All my possessions for a moment of time.