"An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy."

"Eyes are bold as lions,—roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!"

"Scitum est inter cæcos luscum requare posse."

"To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes."

"Ils sont si transparents qu'ils laissent voir votre ame."

"Tell me, eyes, what 'tis ye're seeking; For ye're saying something sweet, Fit the ravish'd ear to greet. Eloquently, softly speaking."

"On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining."

"Wenn ich in deine Augen seh' So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh."

"Die blauen Veilchen der Aeugelein."

"I everywhere am thinking Of thy blue eyes' sweet smile; A sea of blue thoughts is spreading Over my heart the while."

"The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye."

"Her eyes the glow-worme lend thee, The shooting starres attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee."

"We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses."

"It is an active flame that flies First to the babies in the eyes."

"Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it."

"Dark eyes—eternal soul of pride! Deep life in all that's true! * * * * Away, away to other skies! Away o'er seas and sands! Such eyes as those were never made To shine in other lands."

"I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak but as the constitution is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am."

"Der Blick des Forschers fand Nicht selten mehr, als er zu finden wünschte."

"As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."

"And thy deep eyes, amid the gloom, Shine like jewels in a shroud."

"I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light,—are luminous, but not sparkling."

"O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!"

"Within her tender eye The heaven of April, with its changing light."

"Since your eyes are so sharpe, that you cannot onely looke through a milstone, but cleane through the minde."

"The light of the body is the eye."

"Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through."

"Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns."

"And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes."

"Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence."

"Si vous les voulez aimer, ce sera, ma foi, pour leurs beaux yeux."

"And violets, transform'd to eyes, Inshrined a soul within their blue."

"Eyes of most unholy blue!"

"Those eyes, whose light seem'd rather given To be ador'd than to adore— Such eyes as may have looked from heaven, But ne'er were raised to it before!"