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.

All nature wears one universal grin.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?