As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed 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.

The true sin against the Holy Ghost is ingratitude.

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.

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

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.