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.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

I never will desert Mr. Micawber.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he.

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.

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.

Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your read more

Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart

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.]

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?

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.