Will Henry Quotes

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain.

Happy the man and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst for I have lived today."

Act-act in the living Present!

The present is the blocks with which we build.

Look not mournfully into the past it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

The real offence as she ultimately perceived was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park.

Time goes you say? Ah no! Alas Time stays we go.

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.

Think not because no man sees such things will remain unseen.

This is the forest primeval.

No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.

For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor the world over.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.

Hang yourself brave Crillon. We fought at Arques and you were not there.

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

Too fair to worship too divine to love.

If I am not worth the wooing I surely am not worth the winning.

Why don't you speak for yourself John?

Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.

When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

It is not work that kills men it is worry. Work is healthy you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.

Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.

I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.

I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

Progress requires setbacks the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Love comes unseen we only see it go.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

You cannot represent cool. You've got to be cool. You've got to be authentic. I think, after all these years, that is how I define cool. It is being authentic. That is powerful.

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Reusable rockets promise much easier testing because you should usually get them back, and you can debug as you go rather than having to get everything perfect the first time.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

What we do belongs to what we are and what we are is what becomes of us.

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.

Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

All nature wears one universal grin.

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

Science is about knowing engineering is about doing.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.