Eight-O’clock Quotes

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation

It is easier to resist at the beginning than the end

A well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare

Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity

Hell is full of good intentions or desires.

Envy Slays itself by its own arrows

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none

Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor