Will Henry Quotes
The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.
I'm a serious geek. I mean I seriously want to own a unicorn when I'm older . . . or a Pegasus . . . yeah Pegasus sounds better.
Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.
The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing
God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.
If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.