True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
More Quotes from Charles Caleb Colton:
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.Charles Caleb Colton
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after the date.
Charles Caleb Colton
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb Colton
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