splendor quotes

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.