Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.
Oliver GoldsmithI have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
Oliver GoldsmithPeople seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Oliver Goldsmith