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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through read more
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
Without haste, but without rest.
Without haste, but without rest.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to read more
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time