The Man Who Has Ceased To Fear

My External Sensations Are No Less Private To My Self Than Are My Thoughts Or My Feelings. In Either Case My Experience Falls Within My Own Circle, A Circle Closed On The Outside... The Whole World For Each Is Peculiar And Private To That Soul.

I Will Begin With The Self-styled "christian" Party, Who Profess To Base Their Morality On The New Testament. But Whether It Is Really More Christian To Follow Or To Ignore The Teachings Of The Gospels I Shall Not Discuss.

There Are Persons Who, When They Cease To Shock Us, Cease To Interest Us.

Our Live Experiences, Fixed In Aphorisms, Stiffen Into Cold Epigrams. Our Heart's Blood, As We Write It, Turns To Mere Dull Ink.

One Said Of Suicide, As Long As One Has Brains One Should Not Blow Them Out. And Another Answered, But When One Has Ceased To Have Them, Too Often One Cannot.