No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself. Henry Home, Lord Kames More Quotes by Henry Home, Lord Kames More Quotes From Henry Home, Lord Kames Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive. Henry Home, Lord Kames generosity revenge courage Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried. Henry Home, Lord Kames war death children An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Henry Home, Lord Kames demand children way Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love. Henry Home, Lord Kames virtuous noble love Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself. Henry Home, Lord Kames opinion dresses men Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty. Henry Home, Lord Kames poverty want children The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal. Henry Home, Lord Kames cautious frugal coward The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Henry Home, Lord Kames savages revenge men 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 anticipation expectations wish 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 pleasure pain fortune Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less. Henry Home, Lord Kames egotism ifs praise Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes. Henry Home, Lord Kames eye littles men Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion. Henry Home, Lord Kames golden may men A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it. Henry Home, Lord Kames bears mind giving False praise is always confined to the great. Henry Home, Lord Kames confined praise 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. Henry Home, Lord Kames mind exercise men Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me. Henry Home, Lord Kames passion hate men Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure. Henry Home, Lord Kames pain joy men 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 essentials littles reality
