There is always social intercourse to be considered. You want friends for that; indeed, if you have none, you are in a bad way, and apt to wander off into by-paths that are shady and disreputable. With a friend by your side you have a guide and adviser. _Help Your Fellow Man_ You are not put here on earth for your own sole benefit. There are others with the same rights and privileges to enjoy the things of life as well as yourself. This is important to remember. Now, if you help your fellow man to maintain his rights, do you not see that you are laying the foundation for help to maintain your own? If you trample on any person you must expect to be trampled upon in your turn, and then away go your rights, and trouble ensues. If you help your friends and neighbors in their need, you are opening the way to be a success in whatever you may undertake. Under such circumstances, men will swear by you, and if you cannot be helped by them—there being some things that are too deep to be aided, sorrow for instance—you will at least have their sympathy, good will and countenance in your undertakings. Let all your dealings and intercourse with your fellow men be based upon mutuality. There is a proverb which may not be inappropriate, which says, “Molasses catches more flies than vinegar.” Of course, helping your neighbor out of his difficulties or even sympathizing with him in his sorrows or grief, is a sweetness to him and to you. Every kind, every good act, has a reciprocal effect. It may not be done out of whole heartedness, and there may be a grain of selfishness in it, but the principle is there, and often repeated, it becomes a second nature to act like the Good Samaritan without hope of reward. Nevertheless there is always a reward more or less substantial. _Take Counsel of Your Best Friends_ It is as old as the hills that “Two heads are better than one.” It is true that every man has two feet, two hands, two eyes, two ears, and so on, but only one head. Things do not seem to balance with only one thing, so to complete the balance it is the height of policy to have two heads. Why not? But one of the two heads is that of your best friend who can advise you when your one head is apt to go astray in some important step or undertaking. You may not follow the advice of your friend, but he may give you an idea that will save you from making mistakes leading to failure. Solomon says: “Without counsel purposes are disappointed.” But you must take counsel of your friends; not of the ungodly, or those who may take advantage of you to counsel you wrong for their own purpose.