For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

A friend is as it were a second self.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.