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Eagle . A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. {Proverb.}
Eagle . An eagle does not catch flies. - Aquila non capit muscas {Motto.}
Eagle . Brave men are generated by brave and good: there is in steers and in horses the virtue of their sires, nor does the fierce eagle beget the unwarlike dove. - Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis: / Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum / Virtus, nec imbellem feroces / Progenerant aquilæ columbam {Horace.}
Eagle . Doth the eagle know what is in the pit, / Or wilt thou go ask the mole? {William Blake.}
Eagle . If all the world were falcons, what of that? / The wonder of the eagle were the less, / But he not less the eagle. {Tennyson.}
Eagle . Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, / Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. {Smollett.}
Eagle . The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun. {Landor.}
Eagle . The eagle bears me on high. - Alte fert aquila {Motto.}
Eagle . The eagle of one house is a fool in another. - L'aigle d'une maison est un sot dans une autre {Gresset.}
Eagle . The native land of the poet's poetic powers and poetic action is the good, noble, and beautiful, which is confined to no particular province or country, and which he seizes upon and forms wherever he finds it. Therein is he like the eagle. {Goethe.}
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