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

The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.

Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.

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.