Philip Sidney

"The historian…loaden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay; having much ado to accord diff…"

"Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge."

"A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking."

"Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet."

"Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush."

"As in geometry, the oblique must be known, as well as the right; and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even; so in actions of life, who seeth not the filthiness of evil, wanteth a great foil to pe…"

"With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner."

"That sweet enemy, France."