More quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook."
"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
"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."
"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."