To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

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