A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, read more

A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained

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.

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success

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.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

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.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.