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.”

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

“Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.”

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

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

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

“There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.”

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