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-lov…

- 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

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.

- Henry Taylor

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

- Henry Taylor

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

- Henry Taylor

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

- 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 blandishments of the world which…

- Henry Taylor

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…

- Henry Taylor

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

- Henry Taylor