Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. – Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. – Oliver Goldsmith

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall. – Oliver Goldsmith
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. – Oliver Goldsmith
I love everything thats old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,