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

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

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

I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.

I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.

I will have here but one mistress and no master.