O. Henry Quotes
If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
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The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.
The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed to influence other people by force or by whatever other means.
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.
nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.
To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.
The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"
Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.
I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.
