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.
Henry TaylorThere is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
Henry TaylorWe 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 TaylorThe art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
Henry Taylor