Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 34.
“If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.”
“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
Variant: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Source: Paradise Lost
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise”
John Neal, as quoted in The Journal of Education for Upper Canada Vol. III (1850)
Misattributed
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Second Part.
Second Part of Narrative
“Better sit still, men say, than rise to fall.”
Book II, stanza 79
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
"The Shrike and the Chipmunks", The New Yorker (18 February 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Because it is derived from Benjamin Franklin's famous saying this is often misquoted as: Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ”
“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
Source: Maurice
“Heaven with my angel. It doesn't get any better than this.”
Source: Reflected in You
