About Francis Walsingham: Sir Francis Walsingham is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".
I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.
Knowledge is never too dear.
There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.
There is nothing more dangerous than security.