In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
Henry Van DykeThere is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
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 DykeWhat 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.
Henry Van DykeHeaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.
Henry Van DykeIf all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.
Henry Van Dyke