O. Henry Quotes

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.

Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

Heavenly Father and the Savior are grateful that you do your part. They know you, They watch over you, and They love you.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

And smile, smile, smile.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

If we get too far ahead of ourselves we will fall over.

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

I will build a car for the great multitude.

Your religion is where your love is.

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Any sincere thought is irresistible.

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.