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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Fidelity |
| No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. Burke—Reflections on the Revolution in France. | 1 |
| I never will desert Mr. Micawber. Dickens—David Copperfield. Ch. XII. | 2 |
| Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak, Not weak of soul.—I will but hold in sight Thy marvelous beauty.—Here is She you seek! W. J. Linton—Iphigenia at Aulis. | 3 |
| So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. V. L. 896. | 4 |
| Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope—Essay on Criticism. L. 336. | 5 |
| Pleas’d to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais’d to shed his blood. Pope—Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 83. | 6 |
| Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides. Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. Seneca—Agamemnon. 287. | 7 |
| Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt. Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. Seneca—Agamemnon. 934. | 8 |
| O, where is loyalty? If it be banish’d from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbour in the earth? Henry VI. Pt. II. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 166. | 9 |
| You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel. Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 195. | 10 |
| To be true to each other, let ’appen what maäy Till the end o’ the daäy An the last loäd hoäm. Tennyson—The Promise of May. Song. Act II. | 11 |
| To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true. Vaughan—Rules and Lessons. St. 8. | 12 |
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