I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
Oliver GoldsmithAnd what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?
Oliver GoldsmithRidicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
Oliver Goldsmith