Clergyman's

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

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

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…
- Henry Taylor

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight…
- Henry Taylor

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight…
- Henry Taylor

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight…
- Henry Taylor

The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
- 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

The pretext for indecisiveness is commonly mature deliberation; but in reality indecisive men occupy themselves less in deliberation than others; for to him who fears to decide, deliberation soon becomes intolerably irksome, and the mind escapes from the anxiety of it into alien themes.
- Henry Taylor

His food
Was glory, which was poison to his mind
And peril to his body.
- Henry Taylor