Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
  But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Curse of Kehama, Canto XV.  R. SOUTHEY.

  Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
  It is a comforter.
The Tempest, Act ii.  Sc. 1.  SHAKESPEARE.

                                Weariness
  Can snore upon the flint, when restive sloth
  Finds the down pillow hard.
Cymbeline, Act iii Sc. 6.  SHAKESPEARE.

O magic sleep!  O comfortable bird,
That broodest o’er the troubled sea of the mind
Till it is hushed and smooth!
Endymion, Bk.  I.  J. KEATS.

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow’s eye,
Steal me awhile from mine own company.
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii.  Sc. 2. 
SHAKESPEARE.

Then Sleep and Death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
Iliad, Bk.  XVI.  HOMER. Trans. of POPE.

Care-charming sleep, thou easer of all woes,
Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose
On this afflicted prince; fall like a cloud
In gentle showers;... sing his pain
Like hollow murmuring wind or silver rain.
Valentinian.  BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

SMILE.

    Smiles from reason flow,
  To brute denied, and are of love the food.
Paradise Lost, Bk.  IX.  MILTON.

  Why should we faint and fear to live alone,
    Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,
  Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,
    Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?
The Christian Year, 24th Sunday after Trinity. 
       J. KEBLE.

  And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
  May be followed perhaps by a smile.
The Rose.  W. COWPER.

The social smile, the sympathetic tear. Education and Government.  T. GRAY.

  Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. 
  As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Satires:  Prologue.  A. POPE.

  So comes a reckoning when the banquet’s o’er. 
  The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.
The What d’ ye Call ’t.  J. GAY.

SOCIETY.

Heav’n forming each on other to depend,
A master, or a servant, or a friend,
Bids each on other for assistance call,
Till one man’s weakness grows the strength of all.
Essay on Man, Epistle II.  A. POPE.

                   Love all, trust a few,
  Do wrong to none:  be able for thine enemy
  Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
  Under thy own life’s key:  be checked for silence,
  But never taxed for speech.
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act i.  Sc. 1.  SHAKESPEARE.

A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one—­
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.
Luria, Act v.  R. BROWNING.