Men fight wars. Women win them.
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.