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He loved his friends warmly; and those for whom he had a thorough esteem a friendship based upon the perception of genuine qualities of head and heart that made them trustworthy were always most welcome to his retreat on the banks of the Potomac.
Josephus is not trustworthy, always writing "with a motive," and Philo must be considered prejudiced, since he saw too much of the worst side of the Roman treatment of Jews; and the wholly unfavourable verdict of these two writers should be qualified by what we read in the New Testament concerning the subject of them.
The more generally received account of Dermid's landing alone, and disguised, and secretly preparing his plans, under shelter of the Austin Friary at Ferns, must be rejected, if we are still to follow those trite but trustworthy guides, whom we have so many reasons to confide in.
"I thank you for the caution. To-day at any rate you are safe from my verse, for I am tired to death." "Did you venture into the streets?" "It was quite safe, for I had a trustworthy escort." "May I be allowed to ask who?" "Why not? It was Pontius the architect who was with me." "He knows the town well." "And in his care I would trust myself to descend, like Orpheus, into Hades." "Happy Pontius!"
And oh! how poor and insignificant are the genealogies of the oldest European families compared with those of some Rajputs. In the opinion of Colonel Tod, who for over twenty years studied these genealogies on the spot, they are the completest and most trustworthy of the records of the peoples of antiquity.
Several Americans long resident in Constantinople contend that most Turks are pretty trustworthy, but few claim that the Greeks have any virtues that a man can discover at least without a fire assay. I am half willing to believe that the celebrated dogs of Constantinople have been misrepresented slandered.
The other one looked less trustworthy, or at least less inclined to pity. Under these circumstances, therefore, and with this design, the good man began his advances, moving in a hesitating way toward them, with furtive glances, and with such very extraordinary gestures that Brooke and Talbot regarded him in great surprise. "The Hungarian countess," said Talbot, "seems more eccentric than ever."
Considering the progress of his sensational powers his sight, hearing, touch, etc. these, as his cycle advances to its maximum, become, by nature or by education, more and more perfect; but never, at the best, as the ancient philosophers well knew, are they trustworthy. And so of his intellectual powers. They, too, begin in feebleness and gradually expand.
Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
On hearing this, Lucullus called to mind the advice of Sulla, who in his 'Memoirs' advised to consider nothing so trustworthy and safe as that which is signified in dreams.
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