Book: The history of Tom Jones, a foundling

But the meanness, once exposed, it is impossible to make amends for anything.

There is a big difference between misconduct arising from the imprudence, and those which are dictated by the meanness.

When a man lays the Foundation of your own death, others are just waiting for you to build on it.

We are deaf to the clearest reason, when it conflicts with passions mastered us.

When a woman has gone too far, she already before what does not stop.

It's nice to think good about someone you love!

Never a failure never as distressing as on the brink of success.

A thousand unarmed means nothing against a gun; one shot he kills, but only one, but who can guarantee that does not it?

Who found someone else's property and knowing the owner, willfully restrained her, he deserves the gallows not less than if you stole it.

Bad society corrupts good manners.

But I was, whose side will win and who will win if I get killed?

A person is able to do what he did, and that if he was in the wrong one, it may act dishonestly in the future.

When we are fearful, in everything we see and hear, we fancied the relationship with the object of our fear.

We must have a very keen eye to discern a fool under the mask of cheerfulness and good manners.