Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
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 DykeIn the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
Henry Van DykeIt is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
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