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.]

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to read more

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

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.

Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a read more

O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?