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Quotation from On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle
“Sleep was not in the market at any quotation”
On the Choice of Books, Rectorial Address, Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (closing counsel on health) (Project Gutenberg #13435)
Comment on the French financier who lamented that sleep could not be bought.
Citation: "Sleep was not in the market at any quotation" — Thomas Carlyle, On the Choice of Books, Rectorial Address, Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (closing counsel on health) (Project Gutenberg #13435). (id on-the-choice-of-books-q8)
