. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect read more

. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

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.

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

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

A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Without haste, but without rest.

Without haste, but without rest.

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

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

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.

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and read more

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss