The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Man is a being of a mixed nature; and, as there is no integrity without its flaws, so is there no man so knavish but that in some things he may be trusted.
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
Let no such man be trusted.
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.