Bed is the world's strongest magnet.

The Bed is good, for nothing ever occurs in there, no people, nothing.

The Bed is as important a purchase as a shoe — if you're not in one you're in the other.

The Bed is full of tales — if it could tell all it knows it would put many to the blush.

The Hourglass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return.

The Hourglass is a device possessed of a healthy attitude towards time: the sand falling through a few grains at a time repeats itself, never landing in the same arrangement, but even on inspection appearing close enough.

An Hourglass is a time-keeping device with more moving parts than the most complicated of watches.

The Hourglass is a reminder not only of Time's quick flight, but concurrently also of the dust to which we shall at last return.