“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”

“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.”

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“I am the guardian of the sleeping fawn; the snow is dear to me; and the moon rising; and the silver sea.”

“He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.”

“a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universethat sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.”