“I trow that countenance cannot lie, / Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.”

— Edmund Spenser, An Elegie, or Friends Passion, for his Astrophill (1586), line 108

About Edmund Spenser

1552 – 1599

English poet, author of the epic "The Faerie Queene".

“The noblest mind the best contentment has.”

“Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.”

“I hate the day, because it lendeth light / To see all things, but not my love to see.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”