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

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.

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

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

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 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 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

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.