• God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

    Henry Ward Beecher: God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
    Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.274