~Suicide.~--Suicide itself, that fearful abuse of the dominion of the soul
over the body, is a strong proof of the distinction of their destinies.
Can the power that kills be the same that is killed? Must it not
necessarily be something superior and surviving? The act of the soul,
which in that fatal instant is in one sense so great an act of power,
can it at the same time be the act of its own annihilation? The will
kills the body, but who kills the will?--_Auguste_ _Nicolas._
Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance
as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang, or poison, or drown
themselves.--_Sherlock._
He who, superior to the checks of nature, dares make his life the victim
of his reason, does in some sort that reason deify, and takes a flight
at heaven.--_Young._
~Summer.~--Child of the sun, refulgent Summer comes.--_Thomson._