Achilles: This is not strange, Ulysses,
The beauty that is borne here in the face
The bearer knows not, but commends itself
To other's eyes: nor doth the eye itself,
That most pure spirit of sense behold itself,
Not going from itself, but eye to eye oppos'd
Salutes each other.
--_Shakespeare._
538
The silent upbraiding of the eye is the very poetry of reproach; it
speaks at once to the imagination.
--_Mrs. Balfour._
539
Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
--_Plautus._
540
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for
things a long way off.
541
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself
were blind, I should never want a fine house nor fine furniture.
--_Franklin._
542
The eyes are the windows of the soul.
--_Hiram Powers._
543
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
--_La Harpe._
544
He who has seen much of the world, is very prone to exaggeration.
545
Every man is bound to tolerate the act of which he has himself given the
example.
--_Phaedrus._
546
Noble examples excite us to noble deeds.
547
He who makes excuses, himself accuses.
548
A man must often exercise, or fast, or take physic, or be sick.
--_Sir W. Temple._
549