A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.