Philip Sidney Mind Quotations

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.

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.