Henry Taylor Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Henry Taylor


Fear is the mother of foresight.	1
He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.	2
Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.	3
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.	4
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep.	5
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.	6
When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.	7
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.	8