The soul follows the progress of the body, as it does the progress of education. - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

If one's organism is... the preeminent advantage, and the source of all others, education is the second. The best made brain would be a total loss without it...

As a violin string or a harpsichord key vibrates and gives forth sound, so the cerebral fibres, struck by waves of sound, are stimulated to render or repeat the words that strike them.

The soul is... but an empty word, of which no one has any idea, and which an enlightened man should use only to signify the part in us that thinks...