O. Henry Quotes
Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.
Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
