"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
Art thou a friend to Roderick?
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.