Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
Oliver GoldsmithIn two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.
Oliver GoldsmithA traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
Oliver GoldsmithThe premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
Oliver Goldsmith