O. Henry Quotes
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.
France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.
The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.
Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.
When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.
The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?
All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.
The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.
All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.
Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.
Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.
Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.
If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns.
The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.
Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.
Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.
Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.
The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.
Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.
The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.
We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.
We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.
An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.
There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.
