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• What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty.
  -- Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly...
• For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
  -- Edmund Spenser (1553-1599) -- An Hymne in Honour of Beautie, Line 139...
• Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.
  -- Edmund Spenser (1553-1599) -- The Faerie Queene, Book iii, Canto vi, St. 6...
• For all that Nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth.
  -- Edmund Spenser (1553-1599) -- The Faerie Queene, Book iv, Canto x, St. 21...
• To kerke the narre from God more farre, Has bene an old-sayd sawe
  And he that strives to touche a starre Oft stombles at a strawe....
• There is no theam more plentifull to scan Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
  -- Du Bartas (1544-1590) -- Divine Weekes and Workes, Sixth Day...
• Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere
  like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....