We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share
