In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
Henry Van DykeWho can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
Henry Van DykeUse what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke