A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
Philip SidneyTruth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
Philip SidneyThe day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.
Philip SidneyAs in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.
Philip Sidney