TAYLOR, Sir Henry Quotes
(1800-1886), English poet, dramatist, and political scientist
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one decree below your means.
Prodigality is 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 had for money.
Fear is the mother of foresight.
When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep.
When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.
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