Henry Taylor may refer to:
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
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.
When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
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 formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
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.
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.
Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.
No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.
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.