“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.”

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”

“Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?”

“Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.”

“Plato shows us how Socrates goes to his death in complete peace and composure. The death of Socrates is a beautiful death. Nothing is seen here of death’s terror. Socrates cannot fear death, since indeed it sets us free from the body.. . . Death is the soul’s great friend. So he teaches; and so, in wonderful harmony with his teaching, he dies.”

“Great men are sometimes so even in small things.”

“It must afford no small pleasure to a benevolent mind in the midst of a war, which daily makes so much havoc with the human species, to reflect, that the small-pox which once proved equally fatal to thousands, has been checked in its career, and in a great degree subdued by the practice of Inoculation.”

“Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams…”

“a "mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs."”

“Time and death sleep side by side.”