Sleep

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1882

Sleep.

THERE is no danger of wearing this subject threadbare, for people are beginning to wake up to the fact that plenty of sleep is requisite to the health, particularly in the case of brain-workers. The more sleep the brain gets the better does the brain work. All great brain-workers have been great sleepers. Sir Walter Scott could never do with less than ten hours. A fool will want eight hours, as George III. said, but a philosopher wants nine. The men who have been the greatest generals are the men who could sleep at will. Thus it was with both Wellington and Napoleon. The greatest speakers in the House of Commons have been the men who could go to sleep there as much as they like. This explained the juvenility of the aged Palmerston. Sleep is in many cases the best of medicines. A friend told me that he treated himself for a fever. He went to bed with a large pitcher of lemonade by his side. He drank and slept, slept and drank, and slept himself well again. It is safe to say of any man that if he sleeps well he will do well.—Ex.