The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. – Henry Fielding
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. – Henry Fielding
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. – Henry Fielding
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. – 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