Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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 SidneyIt is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Philip SidneyI willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.
Philip Sidney