Oliver Goldsmith

“Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.”

“Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.”

“Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.”

“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”

“Tenderness is a virtue.”

“Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.”