Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Sleep

• We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of 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

  Sleep, Night, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.274

• Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Sleep, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.71

• One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Sleep, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

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