It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.

To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe.

There are no such things as curses; only people and their decisions