Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to Death.

The pillow is a silent Sibyl, and it is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the universe.

Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Cut if you will, with Sleeps dull knife, Each day to half its length, my friend,-The years that Time takes off my life, He'll take off the other end!

It is interesting that amongst children of preschool age, the more intelligent ones tend to sleep less than the dull ones. After the age of seven this relationship is reversed, the more intelligent schoolchildren sleeping more than the dull ones.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.