Henry Home English Historian Quotations

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.