It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.

I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.