The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. -Philip Sidney Health
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. -Philip Sidney Poetry
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it. -Philip Sidney Strength
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. -Philip Sidney Nature
