It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.
The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!
Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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.