Oliver Goldsmith

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

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.’

I fancy, Charles, you’re right: the first blow is half the battle.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives GENUS a better discerning.