“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” — John Steinbeck · On Writing, attributed
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” — Blaise Pascal · Lettres provinciales, 1657
“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.” — Charles Caleb Colton · Lacon, 1820
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” — Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard's Almanack, 1735
“I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.” — Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard's Almanack, attributed