He who angers you conquers you.

If someone angers you, they control you.

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.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.