The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

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.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

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