“Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember only what other people have done for you?”
About Henry Van Dyke
10 November 1852–10 April 1933
Henry Van Dyke was born on 10 November 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, then a distinct community on the edge of Philadelphia and now part of the city. He died on 10 April 1933 in Princeton, New Jersey. During the eighty years between those dates, he became one of the most recognizable public literary figures in the…