What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. – Henry Fielding
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. – Henry Fielding
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation. – Henry Fielding
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. – Henry Fielding
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgins lot. – Arnold Bennett