O. Henry Quotes
There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.
While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.
When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.
Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.
The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.
'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.
We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.
The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.
Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent.
What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.
People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.
The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!