Date: 1749

We may "consider a Book as the Author's Offspring, and indeed as the Child of his Brain"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"For such was the Compassion which inhabited Mr. Allworthy's Mind, that nothing but the Steel of Justice could ever subdue it. "

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek authors "elevate the Mind, and steel and harden it against the capricious Invasions of Fortune."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Philosophy elevates and steels the Mind, Christianity softens and sweetens it."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Which, among other Things, may serve as a Comment on that Saying of Æschines, that Drunkenness shews the Mind of a Man, as a Mirror reflects his Person."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"I might honestly enough have concealed this Wish from the Reader, as it was one of those secret spontaneous Emotions of the Soul, to which the Reason is often a Stranger."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"In Fact, poor Jones was one of the best-natured Fellows alive, and had all that Weakness which is called Compassion, and which distinguishes this imperfect Character from that noble Firmness of Mind, which rolls a Man, as it were, within himself, and, like a polished Bowl, enables him to run thr...

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"Now that Part of his Head which Nature designed for the Reservoir of Drink, being very shallow, a small Quantity of Liquor overflowed it, and opened the Sluices of his Heart; so that all the Secrets there deposited run out"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"This Letter Lady Bellaston thought would certainly turn the Balance against Jones in the Mind of Sophia."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1749

"For Philosophy and Religion may be called the Exercises of the Mind, and when this is disordered they are as wholesome as Exercise can be to a distempered Body."

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)