Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. ”

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy. ”

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. ”

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ”

We ask advice, but we mean approbation. ”

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. ”

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. ”

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. ”

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. ”

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. ”