Quote of the Day (Henry Fielding, on Good and Bad Men)

“It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.”—English novelist Henry Fielding (1707-1754), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)

The image accompanying this post shows Albert Finney as the title character in the Oscar-winning adaptation of Henry Fielding’s classic. As you might surmise in this scene, Tom Jones, for all his good instincts, is very, very far from wisdom.