O. Henry Quotes

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Just imagine how suggestive things are.

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

It's not about me, it's about how I can help my team to achieve more. And I do that through scoring goals.

If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance with it.

The very air in which you live is an inspiration.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

Thou art a very ragged Wart.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.