[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.
The past cannot be cured.
This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!