[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me.

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.

Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.