With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver GoldsmithI have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
Oliver GoldsmithWhen any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
Oliver Goldsmith