All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.
Oliver GoldsmithIn two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.
Oliver GoldsmithIt has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
Oliver Goldsmith