It is better to be faithful than famous.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true read more

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater read more

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that read more

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it.

To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.

To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
[Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
[Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.