The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Trust is like a glass vase, beautiful except there is no way of putting it back together when it breaks.

A learned man came to me once.
He said, "I know the way, -- come."
And I was overjoyed at this.
Together we hastened.
Soon, too soon, were we
Where my eyes were useless,
And I knew not the ways of my feet.
I clung to the hand of my friend;
But at last he cried, "I am lost.