As easily as you could empty a thimble with a teaspoon you can keep your consciousness clear of impressions of the former by pouring in it thoughts of something else.O. Henry
It is quite certain that you could walk, meditating profoundly upon the sky, into an open coal-hole.O. Henry
Memory is a pelican rather than a magpie; but it usually prefers to ignore chance found, mental bones and buttons.O. Henry
When you begin to forget your two-story, red brick, Colonial, young-college-graduate architect's nightmare, think vigorously of your little, white-washed, vine-covered cottage by the sea - and the bigger your little cottage by the sea is the betterO. Henry
He may not know while he is about it that he is forgetting the glaring, inartistic horror of a new house behind him; but once having thought of the evasive, platonic ideal of a cottage by the murmuring waves, the castle of the base, materialistic architect fades away like a blotch of civic improvement before a steady gaze.O. Henry
They saw him prove that for the poor cauls of limited vastness that we call memory to retain more it must absorb less.O. Henry
Sometimes he was curious enough to wait a while - an hour or half that time; but his mind always came back blank.O. Henry
There is no need to speak of the exhaustion from over-exertion in the arts, sciences, professions, commerce, society, or manual labor - it is recognized.O. Henry
He believed in making his own opportunities, and then in remaking them - to the tune of better than $40,000 a year.O. Henry
One night in his auto, Ralph Addington met with an adventure that at first promised less entertainment than any former similar experience in his life.O. Henry