A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDINGA man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
HENRY FIELDINGSuccess is a fruit of slow growth.
HENRY FIELDINGPublic schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
HENRY FIELDINGNeither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
HENRY FIELDINGA wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
HENRY FIELDINGFor I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
HENRY FIELDINGA rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
HENRY FIELDINGWe endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDINGNo one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDINGGiving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
HENRY FIELDINGWicked companions invite us to hell.
HENRY FIELDINGA lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
HENRY FIELDINGIt hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen mighty roast beef was the Englishman’s food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood– Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England’s roast beef.
HENRY FIELDING