A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Oliver GoldsmithLife has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Oliver GoldsmithThe fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.
Oliver GoldsmithA book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.
Oliver Goldsmith