Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.
Henry Home, Lord KamesGreat wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
Henry Home, Lord KamesWhoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.
Henry Home, Lord KamesA 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 KamesDeath, 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