Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.

For which has the care of the other?
which keeps house?
which looks after the replenishing of the aorta and auricles, and stores away the secretions?
Which toils and ticks while the other sleeps?
Which is ever giving timely hints, and elderly warnings?
Which is the most authoritative ?--Our bodies, surely.

At a hint, you must move; at a notice to quit, you depart.

Simpletons show us, that a body can get along almost without a soul; but of a soul getting along without a body, we have no tangible and indisputable proof.

My lord, the wisest of us breathe involuntarily.