When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.

[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.

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.

Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.