It is the minds that have the steadiest pull, like the sun in its course, that influence us.O. Henry
All of us, to reach our ideal, must pass along the road of failure.O. Henry
That branch of the arts known as burglary is in some respects as susceptible to the finer influences.O. Henry
The lesser miseries, as minor chords, please us in spite of their sadness.O. Henry
His eyes sparkled with the satanic light of intelligence and audacity.O. Henry
Your lesser villain is your hard drinker. I believe the teetotaler hide from us some darkest phase of iniquity.O. Henry
Could you elude hardship, you might also miss happiness.O. Henry
But his heart chilled at the odious discernment of the terrible engines of creed and custom and law.O. Henry
Fate is a fiddler; and Life is an inn.O. Henry
A curtain of silence fell upon the scene— penetrating, suggestive, absolute silence, fraught with omens, recognition, revelation.O. Henry