O. Henry Quotes
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God.
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
God has a right to interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants.
If you want to become healthy, you have to surround yourself with a group of people that are getting healthy and you have to be connected to a community that is doing what you want to do.
The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.
Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.
Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?