Henry Fielding Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

  Henry Fielding

  Conscience

• A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

  Henry Fielding

  Law, Forgotten, Neglect

  Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott (1831). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, p.395

• Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Judging, Benches

• The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures.

  Henry Fielding

  Believe, Men, Evil

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.765, Wesleyan University Press

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