A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
Young heads take example of the ancient
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.
I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.