1.  Speech is really an image of mind:  so I have learned to know you from your letters, just as the proverb tells us we may know “the lion from his claws.” In Lucian (Hermot. 54) the proverb is traced to a story of Pheidias, who, “after a look at a claw, could tell how big the whole lion, formed in proportion would be.”  A parallel Greek adage was ἐκτοῦ κρασπέδου τὸ πᾶν ὕφασμα.  Vide Leutsch., Corp. Parœmiog. Græc. I. 252.