Conscience is a coward and those faults it has no strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has no strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

— Oliver Goldsmith

He watches'd and wept he prays'd and felt for all.

— Oliver Goldsmith

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.

— Oliver Goldsmith

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Hope like the gleaming taper's light adorns and cheers our way And still as darker grows the night emits a lighter ray.

— Oliver Goldsmith