O. Henry Quotes
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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.
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.
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.
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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.
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.
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
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.
Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.
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.
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.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
