If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

Young heads take example of the ancient

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.