True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
Oliver GoldsmithThus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.
Oliver GoldsmithLogicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
Oliver Goldsmith