The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth. – George S. Merriam