"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." ― Charles Caleb Colton Topic(s): Friendship More From Charles Caleb Colton "Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity." "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never." "The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down." More In Friendship "So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations."― John Tyler "Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship – two of life’s major assets."― Eleanor Robson Belmont "It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."― Confucius