Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?
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 SidneyFor as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
Philip Sidney