O. Henry Quotes
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.
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.
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
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.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.
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.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.
