Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDINGScarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDINGWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDINGLet no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
HENRY FIELDINGSuccess is a fruit of slow growth.
HENRY FIELDINGWhat is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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 FIELDINGLOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
HENRY FIELDINGNo one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
HENRY FIELDINGNever trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
HENRY FIELDINGIt hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
HENRY FIELDINGThirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
HENRY FIELDINGEnough is equal to a feast.
HENRY FIELDINGThe highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGIt is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
HENRY FIELDING