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.

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

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.