Le Vicaire De Wakefield

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.””

— Oliver Goldsmith

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it.””

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.””

— Oliver Goldsmith

“law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law””

— Oliver Goldsmith

“As the reputation of books is raised not by their freedom from defect, but the greatness of their beauties, so should that of men be prized not for their exemption from fault, but the size of those virtues they are possessed of.””

— Oliver Goldsmith

“…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.””

— Oliver Goldsmith

“What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal.””

— Oliver Goldsmith

“The beast retires to its shelter, and the bird flies to its nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature.””

— Oliver Goldsmith

“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.””

— Oliver Goldsmith