Clear Quote by Henry Taylor

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

— Henry Taylor

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

— Henry Taylor

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

— Henry Taylor

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

— Henry Taylor

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

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

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

— Henry Taylor

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

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

— Henry Taylor

...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

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

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