Henry Home Quotes

Henry Home —

Henry Home, Lord Kames was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included David Hume, Adam Smith, and James Boswell... (wikipedia)

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.