Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
