Henry Taylor may refer to: (wikipedia)
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
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.
The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
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.
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.
His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.
