Beasts and babies remember, that is, recognize: man alone recollects. This distinction was made by Aristotle.
[Aliquid ex Nihilo.]
In answer to the nihil e nihilo of the atheists, and their near relations, the anima-mundi men, a humourist pointed to a white blank in a rude wood-cut, which very ingeniously served for the head of hair in one of the figures.
[Brevity of the Greek and English Compared]
As an instance of compression and brevity in narration, unattainable in any language but the Greek, the following distich was quoted:
