To flesh your friend's curiosity, and then endeavour to leave him with a hûc usque, is exposing your faculty of reticence to an unnecessary trial. (Henry Taylor)

To flesh your friend's curiosity, and then endeavour to leave him with a hûc usque, is exposing your faculty of reticence to an unnecessary trial.

Henry Taylor

Related topics

curiosity faculty flesh leave reticence trial endeavour huc usque

Related quotes

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. View quote
Gerald Ford
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - well, that's Memoirs. View quote
Will Rogers
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. View quote
Anatole France
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt