O. Henry Quotes
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.
Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
