Clergyman's

We figure to ourselves
The thing we like; and then we build it up,
As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,—
For thought is tired of wandering o’er the world,
And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
- Henry Taylor

Many magnify in words the importance of public duties, but few appreciate them in feeling; and that, not so much for want of feeling, as for want of carrying it out to whatever results the understanding reaches.
- 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

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.
- 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 formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
- Henry Taylor

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

I have not skill
From such a sharp and waspish word as ""No""
To pluck the sting.
- Henry Taylor

Where there are large powers with little ambition nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes; for she has given the machinery without the vis motrix.
- Henry Taylor

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love…
- Henry Taylor

It has been said of compliments, that men are most flattered by having the merits attributed to them which they least possess; but as it is only by liars that such compliments can be proffered, so it is only with fools that they can find a favourable acceptation.
- Henry Taylor