The Force Of The Blow Depends On

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.

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.

The Deadliest Foe To Virtue Would Be Complete Self-knowledge.

It Is By A Wise Economy Of Nature That Those Who Suffer Without Change, And Whom No One Can Help, Become Uninteresting. Yet So It May Happen That Those Who Need Sympathy The Most Often Attract It The Least.

An Aphorism Is True Where It Has Fixed The Impression Of A Genuine Experience.