The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. – Henry Fielding
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. – Henry Fielding
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. – Henry Fielding
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. – Randolph Silliman Bourne