"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."
"Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing."
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 49, 1895.
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