"No friendship is an accident. "
- O. Henry
"He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul."
"I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet."
"And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part."
"If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry."
"To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships."
"I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an arti..."
"The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ..."
"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. Santone, then, cannot be blamed for this cold gray fog that came and kissed the lips of the three thousand, and then delivered them to the cross...."
"The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard street was fitted out with muscle- making inventions. With the fibres thus builded up the members we..."