We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.