Henry Home Quotes


An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.


Citations

Home, Henry. Sketches of the History of Man. Vol. 1, W. Creech, 1774.

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Henry Home
Henry Home
  • Born:
  • Died: December 27, 1782
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Philosopher

Henry Home, Lord Kames was a Scottish writer, philosopher, advocate, judge, and agricultural improver. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founding member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, he acted as patron to some of the most influential thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including the philosopher David Hume, the economist Adam Smith, the writer James Boswell, the chemical philosopher William Cullen, and the naturalist John Walker.