Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend, Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.

Friends won't support you until they see strangers celebrate you.

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!