Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.
[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.
There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.