1784
If you want the night to seem a moment to you, sleep all night.
1785
O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
—Coleridge.
1786
Sleep.—Even sleep is characteristic. How charming are children in their lovely innocence! How angel-like their blooming hue! How painful and anxious is the sleep and expression in the countenance of the guilty.
—W. Von Humboldt.