Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.