Xenophon describing his teacher Socrates:
"Clearly his heart was not set on those who were fair to outward view, but on those whose souls excelled in goodness."
(editorial comment: Right on, Socrates!)
"She stopped, she looked at her brother. 'Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life-.' But what life was she couldn't explain." Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party