Four Things

Four things a man must learn to do 

If he would make his record true:

To think, without confusion, clearly;

To love his fellow-men sincerely;

To act from honest motives purely;

To trust in God and heaven securely.

-       H. Van Dyke[1]

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[1] Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American clergyman, educator, and author. He was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Princeton, 1873, and Princeton Theological Seminary, 1874. He was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City (1883–99), professor of English literature at Princeton (1899–1923), and U.S. minister to the Netherlands (1913–16). Among his popular inspirational writings is the Christmas story The Other Wise Man (1896). The themes of his sermons are also expressed in his poetry and the essays collected in Little Rivers (1895) and Fisherman’s Luck (1899). He translated (1902) The Blue Flower of Novalis.  (Source: Columbia Encyclopedia)