by William Gilmore Simms (Author)

"I would be unwilling to believe, and am quite as unwilling to hear, any thing which could be prejudicial to the good name of any of your family, your brother or yourself. I have loved them all too long, and too truly, Richard, to find pleasure in any thing which spoke against their worth. I should be not less unwilling, Richard, to think that you could say anything, which did not merit and command belief. I might think you guilty of error, never of falsehood."