However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGHowever exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
HENRY FIELDINGNeither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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 FIELDINGHuman life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
HENRY FIELDINGMoney is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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 FIELDINGWhere the law ends tyranny begins.
HENRY FIELDINGThere is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
HENRY FIELDINGTea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDINGThe constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
HENRY FIELDINGWisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.
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 FIELDINGGood-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
HENRY FIELDINGNever trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
HENRY FIELDINGWe must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDINGLove and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
HENRY FIELDING