Date: 1752

Dreadful ideas may rack the mind

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"[H]e hath removed the whole Gloom at once, hath driven all Despair out of my Mind, and hath filled it with the most sanguine, and at the same Time, the most reasonable Hopes of making a comfortable Provision for yourself and my dear Children"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

The "blind Guidance" of a predominant passion may account for "the Success of Knaves, the Calamities of Fools," and "all the miseries in which Men of Sense sometimes involve themsleves"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

Vanity may be a predominant passion

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

The mind is like a child, industrious in terrifying itself

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

Many "kind Words" and "many kind Looks" may make an entire Conquest of the Heart

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

One's Heart may become another's "zealous Advocate"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"What a Happiness have you painted to my Imagination!"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"I need not sign this Letter, otherwise than with that Impression of my Heart which I hope it bears"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)

Date: 1752

"But these golden Ideas presently vanished"

— Fielding, Henry (1707-1754)