The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.
Oliver GoldsmithLet schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver GoldsmithPolitics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
Oliver GoldsmithPopular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
Oliver Goldsmith