Oliver Goldsmith

"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."

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

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

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

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

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