There are very few these days who stoop to the thought that the human soul is the greatest of all creations, and that it is the development of the soul, and not of engines and flying machines and warships, that measures progress as God meant progress to be.

The Soul is a kind of rough Diamond, which requires Art, Labour, and Time to polish it.

You would have made a new ideal of St. John Rivers, who was infinitely the best material of the two, and possibly gone on to your dying day in the belief that his cold and hard soul was only the adamant of the seraph, encouraged in that belief by his real and high principle, a thing that went for sounding brass with that worldly-wise little philosopher, Jane, because it did not act more practically on his inborn traits.

A healthy soul is a better prophylactic than belladonna.

The soul of this new mode of warfare was Marcus Claudius Marcellus.

The soul, if we may believe Plotinus, is a ray from the celestial beauty.

Three hundred souls was a heavy weight for those thin little hands to hold sway over,to lead to hell or heaven.

For if the irrational soul is a certain essence, it will have peculiar energies of its own, not imparted from something else, but proceeding from itself.

The soul of this movement was Moses; a real historic figure, worthy, as we can see through the mists around him, of the imposing form which Michael Angelo has given him.

"The guilty soul by Jesus wash'd, Is future glory's deathless heir.

And as my soul, so too their soul will be Laden with fragrance of the days gone by.

Man was made out of the Breath of God; his soul is a spark of the Deity.

How many a poor soul would be lyingAh, blessed thought! in Abraham's bosom; who must now toil on still in this vale of tears!Pardon this pathetic dewI

The soul, by reason of its weakness, is an aggregating and an exclusive principle; it clings obstinately to some things, and violently rejects others.

Our souls yearning after light of any sort must be a pleasure to him to watch.

The soul itself is its own witness, the soul itself is its own refuge; offend not thy conscious soul, the supreme internal witness of man, ...

2 Whatever those inspirèd souls Were urgèd to express, did shake The aged deep and both the poles; Their num'rous thunder could awake Dull earth, which does with Heaven consent To all they wrote, and all they meant.

Even Caesar himself had to fall at last, his strong soul perhaps not sorry to escape through his dagger-wounds from so pitiably small a world; and the poison in the death-cup of Socrates was not so much the juice of the hemlock as the venom of the gossips of Athens.

The place is far away in the wilds, the only living soul within reach is a manhow could she send for a man at such a moment?

I had laid my tongs on the charcoal to toast my bread, and some time after, while my soul was on her travels, a flaming stump rolled on the grate; my poor beast went to take up the tongs, and I burnt my fingers.

" The soul of man, no less than the shifting scene of the world, is often a great subject of surprise.

"Soul" is a word whose meaning we have altered so much that I must define what I mean by it and what I think St. Paul meant by it.

Soul therefore is all things, and is elegantly said by Olympiodorus to be an omniform statue ([Greek: pammorphon agalma]): for it contains such things as are first through participation, but such as are posterior to its nature, after the manner of an exemplar.

In itself, without a plurality of dispositions and impulses, the soul is originally not a representative force, but first becomes such under certain circumstances, viz., when it is stimulated to self-conservation by other beings.

" Then I: "Friend Lycid, all men say that none Of haymakers or herdsmen is thy match At piping: and my soul is glad thereat.