Henry Van Dyke Quotes - Page 4

The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.

Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind its unreturning line, The vanished hour, no longer thine: One hour alone is in thy hands,- The NOW on which the shadow stands.

For those who love... time is eternity.

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.

So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long after all the rest are flown, Returns a solitary tone,— The after-echo of departed years,— And touches all the soul to tears.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.

What do I owe my father? Everything!

Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heav'n securely.

Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; Of all who live, I am the one by whom This work can best be done in the right way."

Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

The birth of Jesus is the sunrise in the Bible.

The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.