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
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. – Oliver Goldsmith
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith