“Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.”

— Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book V, Canto 2, stanza 43

About Edmund Spenser

1552 – 1599

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

“The noblest mind the best contentment has.”

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

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

“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”

“Where there is great power there is great responsibility.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.”

“Our popular Government has often been called an experiment.”