O. Henry Quotes
One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.
Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.
No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.
I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatOn fields of triumph dirges of defeat;And still we turn on gala-days to treadAmong the rustling memories of the dead.
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.
The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts!
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.
Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.
Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.
O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!
Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.
Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.
Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.
We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.
I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.
Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.