And so to bed

Another selection of quotes with pictures added. These are quotes I sign off on Facebook with under the usual way - "And so to bed..." borrowed from Samuel Pepys.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Ursula Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea:

As their eyes met, a bird sang aloud in the branches of the tree. In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves: it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight. Then that moment passed, and he and the world were as before, or almost as before.

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from T.S. Eliot:

Wavering between the profit and the loss
In this brief transit where the dreams cross
The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying
(Bless me father) though I do not wish to wish these things
From the wide window towards the granite shore
The white sails still fly seaward, seaward flying
Unbroken wings

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Anne Fadiman:

When he looked back at the menu as an old man, it brought back everything; the food, the wine, the dining room, the pride he took in being able to pay for such a dinner,... the conviviality that grew as the night continued and everyone had a little too much to drink but not enough to impair the quality of the conversation, some of which, I feel sure, was about the wines themselves. 

And so to bed.. quote for tonight is from Algernon Charles Swinburne:

Wan February with weeping cheer,
Whose cold hand guides the youngling year
Down misty roads of mire and rime,
Before thy pale and fitful face
The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace
Through skies the morning scarce may climb.
Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears,
But lit with hopes that light the year's. 

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Joni Mitchell:

I awoke today and found
the frost perched on the town
It hovered in a frozen sky
then it gobbled summer down
When the sun turns traitor cold
and all the trees are shivering in a naked row 

And so to bed... quote for tonight is from Robert Browning:

The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn:
God's in His heaven—
All's right with the world!