we are onely that amphibious piece betweene a corporall and spiritual essence, that middle forme that linkes those two together, and makes good the m… - Thomas Browne

It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly, they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express those actions of their inward forms. And having passed that general visitation of God, who saw that all that he had made was good, that is, conformable to his will, which abhors deformity, and is the rule of order and beauty; there is no deformity but in monstrosity, wherein, notwithstanding there is a kind of beauty.

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.