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

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

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

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.

He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

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.