Oliver Goldsmith — Irish Poet born on November 10, 1730, died on April 04, 1774

Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes... (wikipedia)

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.