Henry TaylorThinkers

Character is tested by nothing more than in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.

Economy is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

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-.

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.