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.

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.

Hang Irish harpers wherever found.

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

... [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.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

I would not open windows into men's souls.