As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.
Oliver GoldsmithAnd e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
Oliver GoldsmithWe may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.
Oliver Goldsmith