Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.

Christianity is the oxygen of the moral world.

Content hangs not so high but that a man on the ground may reach it.

The pains of life serve by contrast to multiply enjoyment they constitute the foil which sets off and heightens the flashing brightness of the gem.

Cruelty constitutes the greatest moral distance at which an intelligent creature can be removed from a God of forbearance and mercy.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart

Glory is so enchanting that we love whatever we associate with it even though it be death.

No gold glitters like that which is our own.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep on the verge of truth.

The minds of scholars are libraries; those of antiquaries, lumber-rooms; those of sportsmen, kennels; those of epicures, larders and cellars.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Trust, but verify.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

I don't really trust a sane person.

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Disarmament requires trust.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.