A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
Philip SidneyPlato 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 with such opinions.
Philip SidneyThe observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
Philip Sidney