Conscience 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 FieldingIt is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
Henry FieldingHe that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
Henry Fielding