843 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.

La amistad puede convertirse en amor. El amor en amistad. . .nunca.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live

most men know what they hate; few what they love

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.

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.