The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.

The ears are the last feature to age.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.