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.

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.

He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

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 have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.