Henry Home Quotes
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.
Topics
Poverty
Self-Control
Wealth
Abstinence
Economic Security, Economic Insecurity, Financial Security, Financial Insecurity
Exercise
Mind
Paradox, Paradoxes
Physical Fitness
Privilege
Self Discipline
Wellness
Sound Mind
Rich Man
Body
Health, Healthcare & Medicine
Financial Inequality
Mental Well-Being
Citations
Home, Henry. Introduction to the Art of Thinking. A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1761.
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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.