Quotes from Henry Taylor

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

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

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.

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

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.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

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.

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

Fear is the mother of foresight: spiritual fear... temporal fear...

He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend.

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

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.

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

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

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