A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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