The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has
the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
-Henry
Van Dyke[1]
[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)
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