Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Though Jones had formerly believed himself in the very prime of youth and vigor, his first encounter with Lady Bellaston both vexed and puzzled… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
