The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it. Philip Sidney More Quotes by Philip Sidney More Quotes From Philip Sidney I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. Philip Sidney virtuelikesill ...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. Philip Sidney never-liepoet The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways. Philip Sidney journeyhonorlying Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight. Philip Sidney teachdelight The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow? Philip Sidney shamefaultsmay O you virtuous owle, Philip Sidney minervavirtuouswise Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience. Philip Sidney patience He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love. Philip Sidney povertysafelove It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy. Philip Sidney great-happinesspraiseworthyhappiness Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. Philip Sidney qualitymoonmen It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. Philip Sidney governmentreadinggathering Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. Philip Sidney ceaseshowsreason There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets. Philip Sidney namesanswersneeds Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush. Philip Sidney aimmarksun There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns. Philip Sidney rebellionreignlittles 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 passenger. Philip Sidney ignorantlawsea With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. Philip Sidney playmenchildren It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery. Philip Sidney keyseducationhands What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? Philip Sidney ancestrybirthmen There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness. Philip Sidney evilcharactermen
