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

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel.

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!

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.