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

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.

Affection! Affection is false.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst