Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.