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

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

“Great thoughts come from the heart,” not the mind. To the soul alone, therefore, belong the thoughts that reunite, to the mind those that divide. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Philosophy. First Section: Pure Philosophy. C

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