Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. Henry Home, Lord Kames More Quotes by Henry Home, Lord Kames More Quotes From Henry Home, Lord Kames 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 pleasure imagination expectations Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. Henry Home, Lord Kames luxury would-be giving Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature. Henry Home, Lord Kames wisdom giving men An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong. Henry Home, Lord Kames childhood passion children The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest! Henry Home, Lord Kames generosity wise love To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition. Henry Home, Lord Kames saint different children Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience. Henry Home, Lord Kames glory men way An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first. Henry Home, Lord Kames grace winning beauty The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men. Henry Home, Lord Kames meals pride men Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way. Henry Home, Lord Kames mind art thinking Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined. Henry Home, Lord Kames selfish passion pride When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own. Henry Home, Lord Kames imperfection mirrors way Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. Henry Home, Lord Kames passion solitude world No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself. Henry Home, Lord Kames injury conflict men Beauty loses its relish; the graces never. Henry Home, Lord Kames relish loses grace The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. Henry Home, Lord Kames landscape natural mind As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. Henry Home, Lord Kames forgiveness forgiving nice Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion. Henry Home, Lord Kames delicacy passion genius If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own. Henry Home, Lord Kames censure ifs should A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify. Henry Home, Lord Kames savages men children
