“Man, as the prying housemaid of the soul.”

“There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.”

H.P. Lovecraft book The Thing on the Doorstep

“You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?"
"No, indeed!"
"You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged."
"My dear fellow! I congrat-"
"To Milverton's housemaid."
"My dear Holmes!"
"I wanted information, Watson.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician

“Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”

Witold Gombrowicz book Ferdydurke

“A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

“The soul of Man must quicken to creation.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet