Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Henry Fielding

One fool at least in every married couple.
Henry Fielding

Read in order to live.
Henry Fielding

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry Fielding

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Henry Fielding

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
Henry Fielding

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry Fielding

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
Henry Fielding

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry Fielding

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Henry Fielding

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Henry Fielding

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
Henry Fielding

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
Henry Fielding

Where the law ends tyranny begins.
Henry Fielding