Oliver Goldsmith Quotes on Virtue
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.
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His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.
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Here lies David Garrick, describe me, who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.