6 Henry Fielding Quotes on Justice

Henry Fielding quotes on justice

12. Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.

19. To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.

28. ...for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.

30. Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

31. Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

38. To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.