We go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

We make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Yet most of those who have become eminent have been early risers.
Peter the Great always rose before daylight.

"I am," said he, "for making my life as long as possible, and therefore sleep as little as possible." Alfred the Great rose before daylight.

In the hours of early morning Columbus planned his voyage to America, and Napoleon his greatest campaigns.

Copernicus was an early riser, as were most of the famous astronomers of ancient and modern times.