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 Image
Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
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 Image
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
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 Image
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
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 Image
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
