Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
Henry Home, Lord KamesAn infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.
Henry Home, Lord KamesAs nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.
Henry Home, Lord KamesTo 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