Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
Oliver GoldsmithHere lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
Oliver GoldsmithIll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith