Oliver Goldsmith Quotes on Character
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Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.
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Handsome is that handsome does.
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He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.
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Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
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Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.