[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

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

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

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.

There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.