Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.