There Is One Thing Higher Than Royalty:

It Has Been Always Held For A Special Principle In Friendship That Prosperity Provideth But Adversity Proveth Friends.

I Am No Lover Of Pompous Title, But Only Desire That My Name May Be Recorded In A Line Or Two, Which Shall Briefly Express My Name, My Virginity, The Years Of My Reign, The Reformation Of Religion Under It, And My Preservation Of Peace.

[on Being Told Mary, Queen Of Scots, Was Taller Than She:] Then She Is Too High, For I Myself Am Neither Too High Nor Too Low.

My Seat Has Been The Seat Of Kings, And I Will Have No Rascal To Succeed Me.

I Would Not Open Windows Into Men's Souls.