“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”

“You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.”

“What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”

“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius, in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet's Madness.)”

“A soul of water a soul of stone.
A soul by name a soul unknown.
The hours unmake our flesh our bone.
The Soul is all and all alone!”

“But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.”

“As the separation of the soul from the body is the death of the body, so the separation of God from the soul is the death of the soul. And this death of the soul is the true death.”

“I had, at that moment, another soul – an almost divine soul, a creative and sacrificial soul.”

“Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.”

“And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul… the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies.”