O. Henry Quotes
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.
Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.
It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.
Managers who don't lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don't manage don't know what's going on. It's a phony separation that people are making between the two.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.
O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
