"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition." - W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand

"BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"The eye altering, alters all." - William Blake, The Mental Traveller

"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears." - Heraclitus

"This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly." - Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium

"If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred." - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike." - THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici

"Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book."
- JOHN DONNE, The Extasy

"A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life

"The human body is a machine which winds its own springs." - JULIEN OFFROY DE LA METTRIE, L'Homme machine

"How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?" - KATHERINE MANSFIELD, Bliss and Other Stories