Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest

Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest

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 a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

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

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

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.

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.

A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

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