Sir John Davies Quotes

I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.

Thou art true and honest as a dog.

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.

Deeds are males, words females are.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.