Confidence 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 SidneyGod has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
Philip SidneyLike the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.
Philip SidneyTruth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
Philip Sidney