We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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

—Charles Caleb Colton

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

—Charles Caleb Colton

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

—Charles Caleb Colton

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

—Mark Twain

It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can't just let them leave.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

—Shirley MacLaine

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

—A. A. Milne