Post #3134

The wealth of the soul is the only true wealth.
—Lucian 

Post #3055

Let your soul shine.
It's better than sunshine.
It's better than moonshine.
Damn sure better than rain.
—Warren Haynes, American Musician

Post #2732

Whatever that be, which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine ; and, upon that account, must necessarily be eternal.
—Cicero

Post #2731

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester'd the world ever convince me of the contrary.
—Laurence Sterne

Post #2730

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Post #2729

The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
—William Wordsworth

Post #2548

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
—J. G. Holland

Post #2540

The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.
—Michel de Montaigne

Post #2529

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.
—Epictetus

Post #2513

Never let man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.
—Robert Southey

Post #2123

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
—Cicero

Post #2051

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Post #1922

The soul is only the thinking part of the body, and with the body it passes away. When death comes, the farce is over (la farce est jouée), therefore let us take our pleasure while we can.

—Julien Offray de la Mettrie

Post #1903

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
 —Epes Sargent

Post #1789

Warm your spirit by performing noble deeds, not by ignobly seeking the sympathy of your fellows, who are no better than yourself.
—Henry David Thoreau

Post #1737

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty, by how little.
—W.R. Alger

Post #1411

A soul,—a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

—James Fenimore Cooper