Henry Van Dyke Quotes

There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Despite all the silver of Diana and Mercury, their images will be found on the lake. For the sculptor looking for new clay, he and his people will be flooded with gold.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

There is a lot of money to be made in the business of secrets, of course.

Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.

There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.

It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will.

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.

Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should be required reading for anyone and everyone who is concerned about the decreasing rate of women studying computer science.

I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.

Secrets travel fast in Paris.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.