Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.
Henry FieldingTea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry FieldingIt is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
Henry FieldingConscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.
Henry Fielding