Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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 Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.
Philip SidneyUnlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
Philip Sidney