Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. – Henry Fielding
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. – Henry Fielding
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. – Henry Fielding
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. – Henry Fielding
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872