Oh! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.
—Walter Scott.
Sleep.—One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.—Fielding.
God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.—Saadi.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor; and so shall thy labor sweeten thy rest.—Quarles.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow.—Beecher.
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.—Alcott.
There are many ways of inducing sleep,—the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.—Sterne.
Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time.—Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania.
O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
—Coleridge.
Society.—Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely forgives failure.—Mme. Roland.