Oliver Goldsmith

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.”

“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”

“Where wealth accumulates, men decay.”

“Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.”

“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”

“The first blow is half the battle.”

“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”

“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”

“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.”

“The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.”

“Silence is become his mother tongue.”

“Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.”

“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”

“He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again.”

“A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.”