Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.
Philip SidneyHappiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
Philip SidneyTo be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court
Philip SidneyConfidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
Philip Sidney