Henry Taylor may refer to:
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
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.
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.
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.
. . . and for that they were rich,And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,And scourged the weak; and for that they made lawsWhich turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - For these their sins the nations cast them out.
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.
Where there are large powers with little ambition. . . nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.