“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”
“Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams...”
“There is a fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration; there are daily small deaths.”
“...too weary and dazed by unfinished sleep even to swear. There comes a degree of numbness in fatigue and exasperation which can be expressed only by a sullen silence.”
“For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”
“Sometimes the surface is the safest place to be.”