There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

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

For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.