--BEECHER.
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.--ALCOTT.
There are many ways of inducing sleep,--the thinking of purling rills,
or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge
fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much
better than any of these succedaneums.--STERNE.
Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time.
--ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ROUMANIA.
O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
--COLERIDGE.
SOCIETY.--Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely
forgives failure.--MME. ROLAND.
Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the
best places.--EMERSON.
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every
bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling
verdure of a velvet surface.--WASHINGTON IRVING.
Heaven forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on other for assistance call,
Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally
The common interest, or endear the tie.
To these we owe true friendship, love sincere,
Each home-felt joy that life inherits here.
--POPE.
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he
brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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