O. Henry Quotes
That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything.
It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so.
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.
We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.
Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.
Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!
I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
