All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver GoldsmithAll the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
Oliver GoldsmithWe may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.
Oliver Goldsmith