Handsome is that handsome does.

— Henry Fielding

Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today."

— Henry Fielding

Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst For I have lived today."

— Henry Fielding

His designs were strictly honorable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

— Henry Fielding

I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' the Goodness of a Man's Heart did not incline him to relieve the Distresses of his Fellow-Creatures, methinks the Desire of Honor should move him to it. What inspires a Man to build fine Houses, to purchase fine Furniture, Pictures, Clothes, and other things at a great Expense, but an Ambition to be respected more than other People? Now would not one great Act of Charity, one Instance of redeeming a poor Family from all the Miseries of Poverty, restoring an unfortunate Tradesman by a Sum of Money to the means of procuring a Livelihood by his Industry, discharging an undone Debtor from his Debts or a Goal, or any such Example of Goodness, create a Man more Honor and Respect than he could acquire by the finest House, Furniture, Pictures or Clothes that were ever beheld? For not only the Object himself who was thus relieved, but all who heard the Name of such a Person must, I imagine, reverence him infinitely more than the Possessor of all those other things: which when we so admire, we rather praise the Builder, the Workman, the Painter, the Lace man, the Taylor, and the rest, by whose Ingenuity they are produced, than the Person who by his Money makes them his own.

— Henry Fielding

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

— Henry Fielding

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

— Henry Fielding

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

— Henry Fielding

Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that all men should consent in commending goodness, and no man endeavor to deserve that commendation; whilst, on the contrary, all rail at wickedness, and all are as eager to be what they abuse.

— Henry Fielding

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

— Henry Fielding