Oliver Goldsmith

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,_x000D_ _x000D_ Adorns and cheers our way;_x000D_ _x000D_ And still, as darker grows the night,_x000D_ _x000D_ Emits a brighter ray.

The wretch condemn'd with life to part,_x000D_ _x000D_ Still, still on hope relies;_x000D_ _x000D_ And every pang that rends the heart_x000D_ _x000D_ Bids expectation rise.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.