They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
I would not open windows into men's souls.
God forgive you, but I never can.
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.