And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
Oliver GoldsmithIll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Oliver GoldsmithA boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.
Oliver GoldsmithQuality 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 Goldsmith