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.

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on read more

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

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.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far read more

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known

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

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?

Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?