“ You can't appreciate home until you've left it money till it's spent your wife till she's joined a woman's club nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a… O. Henry
“ Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling—something O. Henry
“ Oh, come off your perch! said the other man, who wore glasses. Your premises won't come out in the wash. You wind-jammers who apply bandy-legged theories to concrete categorical syllogisms send logica… O. Henry
“ John Perkins was not accustomed to analyzing his emotions. But as he sat in his Katy-bereft 10×12 parlor he hit unerringly upon the keynote of his discomfort. He knew now that Katy was necessary to hi… O. Henry
“ She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed. O. Henry
“ Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper. O. Henry
“ 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… O. Henry
“ 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.… O. Henry
“ 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… O. Henry
“ 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… O. Henry
“ 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. O. Henry
