Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside. O. Henry More Quotes by O. Henry More Quotes From O. Henry I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer. O. Henry my-life never like life I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty. O. Henry never now reading time