Chapter 467

Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts.

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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586.

_The Defense of Poesy_.

He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.

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I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet.

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_Arcadia_. Book i.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good, or extremely evil.

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They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

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THOMAS HOBBES. 1588-1679.

_The Leviathan_.