Philip Sidney

“I am not I; pity the tale of me.”

“My true-love hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss; There never was a bargain better driven. His heart in me keeps...”

“It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.”

“The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.”

“Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved w...”

“If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live...”

“A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.”

“Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, sinc...”

“The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.”

“Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.”

“It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.”