His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.
O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.
If someone angers you, they control you.
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.