Henry Taylor Quotes

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.