Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

- Henry Home, Lord Kames

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying ev…

- Henry Home, Lord Kames

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

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

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

- Henry Home, Lord Kames

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

- Henry Home, Lord Kames

The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.

- Henry Home, Lord Kames

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…

- Henry Home, Lord Kames

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 …

- Henry Home, Lord Kames