O. Henry Quotes
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.
It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.
No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.
The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.