The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
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. — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Image
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Image
His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body. — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting. — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
...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 Image
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 Image
