4 Henry van Dyke Quotes on Society

Henry van Dyke quotes on society

13. If Might made Right, life were a wild-beasts' cage; If Right made Might, this were the golden age; But now, until we win the long campaign, Right must gain Might to conquer and to reign.

22. The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good; I watched the battle from afar as one who understood The shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight- How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

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

38. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.