"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."

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

"Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst."

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

"We are rarely proud when we are alone."

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."