It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Have a care over my people. You have my people--do you that which I ought to do. They are my people.... See unto them--see unto them, for they are my charge.... I care not for myself; my life is not dear to me. My care is for my people. I pray God, whoever succeedeth me, be as careful of them as I am.

If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.

... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart