• Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

    Oliver Goldsmith: Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
    Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.178