The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. – Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. – Oliver Goldsmith

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. – Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. – Oliver Goldsmith
They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. – Oliver Goldsmith
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. – Oliver Goldsmith