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.

The end crowneth the work.

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

[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.

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

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

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.