Henry Fielding

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.