"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more." (from Tom Thumb the Great, 1730) يقول هنري فيلدنغ في احد كتبه: عندما يحجم الناس عن شكري فان ذلك يكون بمثابة اكبر شكر يقدم لي.
"What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh." (from Tom Jones)
Note: After novel established itself as a certain literary form in Britain, were novels often described as The Adventures of... Examples: The Life and Adventures of Mr Duncan Campbell by Daniel Defoe (1720); The Adventures of Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (1742); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44) by Charles Dickens, The Adventures of Philip by W.M. Thackeray (1861-62), The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1871) by George Meredith - For further reading: biographies by W.L. Cross (3 vols, 1918) and F.H. Duddon (2 vols, 1952. - Fielding and the Nature of the Novel by Robert Alter (1968); Henry Fielding: The Critical Heritage, ed. by R. Paulson and T. Lockwood (1969); Henry Fielding: Justice Observed, ed. by K.G. Simpson (1986); Imagining the Penitentiary by John Bender (1987); Henry Fielding: A Life by Martin C. Battestin and Ruthe R. Battestin (1989); Natural Masques: Gender and Indentity in Fielding's Plays and Novels by Jill Campbell (1995); Critical Essays on Henry Fielding, ed. by Albert J. Rivero (1998); Henry Fielding: A Literary Life by Harold E. Pagliaro (1998); The Author's Inheritance: Henry Fielding, Jane Austen and the Establishment of the Novel by Joy Alyson Parker (1998)