"I have ever used to set the Last Judgment Day before mine eyes, and so to rule as I shall be judged to answer before a higher judge, to whose judgment seat I do appeal, that never thought was cherishe…"

"I have always held that the most beautiful thing in the world is the truth."

"There is no prince in the world who has such subjects as I have, and I will not change them for any other, not even for the King of Spain's Indies."

"My only desire is to live and die a virgin."

"There is no prince in the world that governs a people more loving, more faithful, or more obedient than I do."