He who placed me in this seat will keep me here.

He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.