As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
Philip SidneyReason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.
Philip SidneyGod has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
Philip SidneySo, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Danteโs Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.
Philip Sidney