• The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

    Epes Sargent: The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 558, 1895.