When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
— O. Henry, A Service of Love
O. Henry Museum 
The O. Henry Museum offers a look into the life of William Sidney Porter in the Austin years leading up to his controversial prison term, after which he assumed the pen name O. Henry and set about transforming himself into the famed short story writer who authored such universal classics as "Gifts of the Magi," "The Ransom of Red Chief," and "The Cop and the Anthem."
409 E. 5th St.
Austin, TX 78701
(512) 472-1903
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2013-02-15
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2013-02-14
Austin society is acknowledged to be the wittiest, the most select, and the highest bred to be found southwest of Kansas City.
— O. Henry, Tictocq: The Great French Detective, in Austin
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2013-02-13
I’ve often wondered what good too much education is to a man if he can’t use it for himself. If all the benefits of it are to go to the others, where does it come in?
— O. Henry, Buried Treasure
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2013-01-25
Miss McCarty went up to him, and he kissed her loudly. He repeated this at regular intervals of ten seconds, with the effect of a rapid fire machine gun.
— O. Henry, The Bride of the Bronx: A Composite Story
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2013-01-24
New postcards are available in the O. Henry gift shop! The two designs feature O. Henry in his ill-fated job as a banker and a cartoon drawn by the author.
The back is based on a postcard in the collection dating from 1910, the year that Porter (O. Henry) died.
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2013-01-03
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
— O. Henry, A Fog in Santone
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2012-12-20
It seems that fathers and mothers are willin’ for their offsprings to be drownded, stole, fed on poison oak, and et by catamounts 364 days in the year; but on Christmas Day they insists on enjoyin’ the exclusive mortification of their company.
— O. Henry, Christmas by Injunction
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2012-12-19
We soon lost all idea of what time of the year it was. It’s just about eighty degrees there in December and June and on Fridays and at midnight and election day and any other old time.
— O. Henry, The Day We Celebrate
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2012-12-18
“There are some to whom Christmas gives not Christmassy essence.” - O. Henry, An Unfinished Christmas Story
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2012-12-17
“There are just as many real Christmas stories as ever, if we would only dig ‘em up.” - O. Henry, An Unfinished Christmas Story
