Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver GoldsmithPhilosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.
Oliver GoldsmithTo aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
Oliver GoldsmithThe heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
Oliver GoldsmithMan little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation.
Oliver Goldsmith