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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.

Elizabeth I

Country

Nothing

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince.

Elizabeth I

May

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

Elizabeth I

Government

Wit

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Elizabeth I

Man

Worth

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Elizabeth I

Strength

Harm

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

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

Elizabeth I

Fool

Past

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Elizabeth I

Gold

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

God forgive you, but I never can.

Elizabeth I

God