Henry van Dyke Quote

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest....

The Works of Henry Van Dyke: Little rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness (ed. 1920)