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.

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.

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

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.

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow

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.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy read more

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

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

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.