Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them--see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

The end crowneth the work.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.