A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver GoldsmithEven children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
Oliver GoldsmithThis same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
Oliver GoldsmithThe premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
Oliver Goldsmith