C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. Lord Kames
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. 1 False praise is always confined to the great. 2 Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion. 3 Ignorance is the mother of fear. 4 Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way. 5 Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause. 6 The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. 7 The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. 8
