Henry Van Dyke

So it's home again, and home again, America for me!Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars!

— Henry Van Dyke

O brave flag, O bright flag, O flag to lead the free!And drawn a hundred million hearts to follow after thee.

— Henry Van Dyke

What is Friendship? Something deepPraise that heartens us to live.

— Henry Van Dyke

If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts' cage;Right must gain Might to conquer and to reign.

— Henry Van Dyke

Peace without Justice is a low estate,—We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

— Henry Van Dyke

And yet there is an anger that purifies the heart:Against the enemies of love, and all that hate the Lord.

— Henry Van Dyke

Four things a man must learn to doTo trust in God and Heaven securely.

— Henry Van Dyke

Flowers rejoice when night is done,In a silent hymn of praise.

— Henry Van Dyke

The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

— Henry Van Dyke

Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds,I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out.

— Henry Van Dyke

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

— Henry Van Dyke

Let me but feel thy look's embrace,More close than any kiss.

— Henry Van Dyke

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.

— Henry Van Dyke

But often faltering feetThe sunrise of the soul.

— Henry Van Dyke

He that planteth a tree is the servant of God,And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.

— Henry Van Dyke

In warlike pomp, with banners flowing,From every hillside, every wood.

— Henry Van Dyke

I heard through the nightMoan of the forest vanquished.

— Henry Van Dyke

The storm is ended! The impartial sunIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.

— Henry Van Dyke

For ever so our thoughtful hearts repeatAmong the rustling memories of the dead.

— Henry Van Dyke

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.

— Henry Van Dyke

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

— Henry Van Dyke

The mountain is voiceless and imperturbable; and its very loftiness and serenity sometimes make us the more lonely.

— Henry Van Dyke

The promotion from all-day picnics to a two weeks' camping-trip is like going from school to college.

— Henry Van Dyke

Every mountain is, rightly considered, an invitation to climb.

— Henry Van Dyke

Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know.

— Henry Van Dyke

How often a man has cause to return thanks for the enthusiasms of his friends! They are the little fountains that run down from the hills to refresh the mental desert of the despondent.

— Henry Van Dyke

Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

— Henry Van Dyke

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

— Henry Van Dyke

No amount of energy will take the place of thought.

— Henry Van Dyke

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

— Henry Van Dyke

Oh, London is a man’s town, there’s power in the air;But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.

— Henry Van Dyke

I know that Europe’s wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.

— Henry Van Dyke

Oh, it’s home again, and home again, America for me!Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

— Henry Van Dyke

Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land.

— Henry Van Dyke

Oh, come as comes the morn. And all the peoples lift their heads in liberty and peace.

— Henry Van Dyke

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

— Henry Van Dyke

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

— Henry Van Dyke

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

— Henry Van Dyke

The Sun-Dial at Wells College

— Henry Van Dyke

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

— Henry Van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

— Henry Van Dyke

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

— Henry Van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

— Henry Van Dyke

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

— Henry Van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

— Henry Van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

— Henry Van Dyke

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

— Henry Van Dyke

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

— Henry Van Dyke

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

— Henry Van Dyke

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

— Henry Van Dyke

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

— Henry Van Dyke

So in the heart,And touches all the soul to tears.

— Henry Van Dyke

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

— Henry Van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

— Henry Van Dyke

A tear that trembles for a little whileThan all the distant landscape that it blurs.

— Henry Van Dyke

And so, by night, while we were all at rest,I think the coming sped the parting guest.

— Henry Van Dyke

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

— Henry Van Dyke

Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I.

— Henry Van Dyke

The legend of Felix is ended, the toiling of Felix is done;In the glad surprise of Paradise where work is sweeter than play.

— Henry Van Dyke

This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk!Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

— Henry Van Dyke

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

— Henry Van Dyke

Not to the swift, the race:Not to the wise, the light.

— Henry Van Dyke

For men have dulled their eyes with sin,And framed their iron creeds to shut thee out.

— Henry Van Dyke

This is the soldier brave enough to tellAnd rides through hell to save his country's life.

— Henry Van Dyke

Count not the cost of honour to the dead!To lead our sons as he our fathers led.

— Henry Van Dyke