About Henry Van Dyke: Henry Jackson van Dyke was an American author, educator, and clergyman.
But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.
What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail f...
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listeni...
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
