A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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.
Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.
Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.
As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.
Men fight wars. Women win them.
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have such piety in them that they would not seek where they are the second to be the first, and where the third to be the second and so forth.
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
God forgive you, but I never can.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be.
Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.
I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold.
When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.