Oliver Goldsmith

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

"The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself."

"Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."

"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."

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