Passage 002, Verse 14, Lines 1-4:
Show your opponent the honor deserving;
Be secure in your own nobility.
This was the Founder’s charge.
This was the totem of the Sea Fox.

Passage 012, Verse 14, Lines 4-7:
Then Karen Nagasawa said:
“The past holds wise men as well as fools;
Why then do we listen only to the foolish
When we have another choice?”

Passage 096, Verse 12, Lines 1-5:
As each warrior plays his role in battle,
So each caste plays its role for the Clan.
Growers of food and makers of ’Mechs,
Those who discover and those who enrich,
All look for justice to the warrior who governs.

Passage 127, Verse 35, Lines 6-9:
Bid the Sea Fox farewell;
Noble he was, but not strong enough.
The diamond shark has devoured him;
The shark is the greater warrior.

Passage 127, Verse 42, Lines 17-20:
Grace, honor and nobility; show these beforehand.
But when the battle begins,
Attack with terrifying swiftness,
Be the Diamond Shark, relentless and ruthless.

Passage 132, Verse 53, Lines 28-33:
We saw them leap from the sea, Demons of the deep.
Bright reflections of scales blinding their prey.
A maelstrom of fin and tooth,
blood of victim spreading through the waters.
Then calm waters returned, believing the violence done.
It was there that we saw the Diamond Shark for the first time.