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

A little body often harbors a great soul. – Proverb

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc

With all your science – can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul? – Henry David Thoreau