“ True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. Charles Caleb Colton
“ Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. Charles Caleb Colton
“ We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Charles Caleb Colton
“ To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. Charles Caleb Colton
“ The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. Charles Caleb Colton
“ Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair. Charles Caleb Colton
“ Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. Charles Caleb Colton
“ Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Charles Caleb Colton
“ No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton
“ Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. Charles Caleb Colton
“ Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. Charles Caleb Colton
“ That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. Charles Caleb Colton
“ Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. Charles Caleb Colton
“ He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth. Charles Caleb Colton
