Henry Beston Quotes

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

The night is just a part of the day

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

There's no night without stars.

I like to have glasses for day and night.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Most of us, myself included, have forgotten what real darkness is like. We live in a world where light is inescapable. It comes from street lamps, headlights, security floodlights, and even the faint glow of our alarm clocks.

There is no injustice without justice coming after, just as there is no night not followed by day.

We have music playing at home, day and night.

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

We of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

It was like noticing the sun. You couldn't help but see it, to turn to face the heat of it, to bask in the glory of it. But often when the sun is high in the sky, the moon is up there, too. A dim memory of what she will be in the night, but there, nonetheless, dim and misty, hard and white. At night, there is only the moon, the sun is nowhere to be seen. There are no distractions when the moon rules the sky.

Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.

The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the filth and the slime. It's the alternative that grown-ups all over the world pick. You balance off your walk through the hog-wallow against what it gains you. You choose the lesser of two evils and try to keep your good intentions in front of you. And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.