O. Henry Quotes

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

History is only a value of relation.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

In the one branch he most needed

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

Man loves most that which is his own.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation.

Crises in themselves are highly educational.

The prettier. Now fight for it.

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.

The problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart.

There is joy guaranteed for the faithful.

Pride is the great enemy of unity

That solid basis for a foundation of faith is personal integrity.

Invest time that will compound forever.

Whether or not you choose to keep your covenant to always remember Him, He always remembers you.

You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey. . . . God will take advantage of that if you let Him

Children are the inheritance of the Lord to us in this life and also in eternity. Eternal life is not only to have forever our descendants from this life. It is also to have eternal increase.

When we offer succor to anyone, the Savior feels it as if we reached out to succor Him.

If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love

Conversion brings a drive to learn.

We know the Lord makes His servants bold. The young boy Joseph who saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a grove of trees was transformed into a spiritual giant.

When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.

The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him.

If you ponder the scriptures and begin to do what you covenanted with God to do, I can promise you that you will feel more love for God and more of His love for you.

Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.

From what might appear to you to be small choices, the Lord will lead you to the happiness you want. Through your choices He will be able to bless countless others.

The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.

At this and every season, our Savior invites us to join with HIM and others to offer the priceless gift of JOY.

We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young.