The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. – Miguel de Cervantes

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. – Michel de Montaigne

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher