O. Henry Quotes
I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead
What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.
Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.
My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.
Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.
Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.
Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.
Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.
There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.
The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.
I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.
I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.
In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere
The filming of Shakespeare is always problematic, because he hates posing for the camera
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it
Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.
Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?
A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.
