Friendship is measured in increments of trust.

we don't trust anyone. we just trust our own instincts on someone.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

It was just that there was something newly powerful about this assembled family in the car. They were all growing up and into each other like trees striving together for the sun.

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

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.