Who 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 DykeA clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.
Henry Van DykeEven if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
Henry Van DykeThe Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.
Henry Van DykeLove is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
Henry Van DykeEvery country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.
Henry Van Dyke