Henry Van Dyke Quotes

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

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.

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

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

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 not.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

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

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

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