Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
-
-
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDING -
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
HENRY FIELDING -
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDING -
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
HENRY FIELDING -
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
HENRY FIELDING -
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
HENRY FIELDING -
All nature wears one universal grin.
HENRY FIELDING -
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
HENRY FIELDING -
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
HENRY FIELDING -
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
HENRY FIELDING -
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDING -
There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
HENRY FIELDING -
Wicked companions invite us to hell.
HENRY FIELDING -
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
HENRY FIELDING -
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
HENRY FIELDING