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“The tongues of conscience need a conscience of their own to keep them from speaking before they know what they are talking about.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 29

“If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 120

“Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 101

“No conscience which is a palimpsest of the consciences of others is a safe guide.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 29

“Vacant minds have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 70

“The unfortunate who has to travel for amusement lacks capacity for amusement.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 70

“Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 69

“It is the honest lies we tell—statements factually correct and essentially deceiving—which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 68

“We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd instinct.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 79

“We condemn a sin before we have even tried it.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 135

“If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 31

“It is when we start to discipline our mind that we discover how many undisclosed relationships it already has.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 94

“Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 100

“How often our bosom swells and our temples throb to a thought which proves itself not to be worth anything but for the exaltation we feel while the swelling and throbbing are going on, which after all is something.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 139

“For a competent audience, uncommon men must have other uncommon men.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 146

“Thought the fool is to be pitied, still he is spared watching spurious wisdom turn to ashes in his head.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 115

“Many a superior brain is blockaded by inferior thoughts.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 69

“The rare individual who has learned to govern himself is too fed up with the labor of it to want to govern anybody else.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 94

“We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 103

“Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 94