Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? – Horace

The only substance properly so called is the soul. – Henri Frederic Amiel

The defects of the soul are like wounds in the body — whatever care one takes to heal, the scar still appears, and they are every moment in danger of reopening. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

A little body often harbors a great soul. – Proverb