Oliver Goldsmith

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage without a heart?

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

Love: An abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Silence gives consent.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Love: An abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.