Pardon is granted to necessity.
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
Friends are proved by adversity.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.
The human mind ever longs for occupation.