Success is a fruit of slow growth.
HENRY FIELDINGSuccess is a fruit of slow growth.
HENRY FIELDINGThe woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
HENRY FIELDINGThere 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 FIELDINGNow in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
HENRY FIELDINGA beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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 FIELDINGHe grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
HENRY FIELDINGO innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
HENRY FIELDINGGood-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
HENRY FIELDINGA lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
HENRY FIELDINGThe prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
HENRY FIELDINGNo one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDINGSome folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
HENRY FIELDINGI am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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 FIELDINGGood writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller, who always proportions his stay in any place.
HENRY FIELDING