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

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

[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.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart