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.
False praise is always confined to the great.
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.
Ignorance is the mother of fear.
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.
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause.
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
The mind is never more highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape.