Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as read more

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much

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.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him read more

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man

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.