May 14

On Confidences

Beware of trusting all your secrets with anybody but your wife. PP118

Commit all your secrets to no man; trust in God with all your heart, but let your confidence in friends be weighed in the balances of prudence, seeing that men are but men, and all men are frail. Trust not great weights to slender threads. PT58

“It is not generally a wise thing to tell all that is in your heart. Solomon himself said, “A fool uttereth all his mind; but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.” There are so many things which you had better not tell to anybody. Make no one your confidant completely.” (2779.229)