Henry Dyke Quotations

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

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; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.

I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and startsfor the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.Then, someone at my side says;"There, she is gone!""Gone where?"Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.Her diminished size is in me, not in her.And just at the moment when someoneat my side says, "There, she is gone!"There are other eyes watching her coming,and other voices ready to take up the gladshout;"Here she comes!"And that is dying.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say

He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he haith not seen shall bless him.

Gratitude is a twofold love / love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.