Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. – Oliver Goldsmith
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. – Oliver Goldsmith
Aromatic plants bestow
no spicy fragrance while they grow;
but crushd or trodden to the ground,
diffuse their balmy sweets around. – Oliver Goldsmith