A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

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

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

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

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.

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.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

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.

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

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.