Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
HENRY FIELDINGGood writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDINGThe highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
HENRY FIELDINGPenny saved is a penny got.
HENRY FIELDINGWhen 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 FIELDINGThere are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
HENRY FIELDINGWe are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
HENRY FIELDINGGood-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDINGThere’s one fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDINGA newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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 FIELDINGScarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
HENRY FIELDINGThe 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 FIELDINGAll nature wears one universal grin.
HENRY FIELDINGHowever exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGThwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
HENRY FIELDING