No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren. — Henry Taylor Copy Share
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more… — Henry Taylor Copy Share
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting. — Henry Taylor Copy Share
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. — Henry Taylor Copy Share
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something… — Henry Taylor Copy Share
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form… — Henry Taylor Copy Share
...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 laws/Which… — Henry Taylor Copy Share
We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,-… — Henry Taylor Copy Share
Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those… — Henry Taylor Copy Share
When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give. — Henry Taylor Copy Share
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State… — Henry Taylor Copy Share
