O. Henry

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"A stitch in time may have nine fellows."

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles winning out."

"It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York."

"The greatest adventures often come when you accept the smallest invitations."

"Money is a great beautifier."

"A service of love is a service of honor."

"Luck is the friend of the audacious."

"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark."

"The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness."

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."

"There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness."

"It is a human nature to love one another when we have access to each other with discretion."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"Art is the most generally pleasing form of expression."

"The adventures of a man who goes after his dreams rarely end the way he expects."

"Truth is such a precious article, let us economize its use."

"All of us are pitchers of Diogenes; we are compelled to be asking."

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast."

"The best things in life come to those who wait, but the wise ones never stop striving."

"One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all."

"There is no greater mystery than the workings of the human heart."

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something."

"Time tells all secrets."

"A master may enjoy freedom without servility, and a servant without degradation."

"The point of fiction is not to convey information, but to create an experience."

"Peace is the only battle worth winning."

"Nature does not always wear the colors we expect of her."

"The man who makes no enemies is the man who makes nothing."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in the face of it."