I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
I would not open windows into men's souls.
Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.
The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
The end crowneth the work.