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

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.