Oliver Goldsmith

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

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

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

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

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

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