rson._

Nature is poetic, but not mankind. When one aims at truth it is easier
to find the poetic side of nature than of man.--_X. Doudan._

All nature is a vast symbolism; every material fact has sheathed within
it a spiritual truth.--_Chapin._

Nature is no sentimentalist,--does not cosset or pamper us. We must see
that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a
woman, but swallows your ships like a grain of dust. The cold,
inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes
a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity,
lightning, respect no persons.--_Emerson._

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth
fruit: a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.
Everything is created and conducted by the same Master,--the root, the
branch, the fruits,--the principles, the consequences.--_Pascal._

A noble nature can alone attract the noble, and alone knows how to
retain them.--_Goethe._

Nature, the vicar of the almighty Lord.--_Chaucer._

A poet ought not to pick Nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow
as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but
write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the
memory.--_Coleridge._

We, by art, unteach what Nature taught.--_Dryden._

Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and
colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon, of
mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact
with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and
roll.--_Alcott._

Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of Nature. She shows us
only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.--_Emerson._

Nature is an absolute and jealous divinity. Lovely, eloquent, and
instructive in all her inequalities and contrasts, she hides her face,
and remains mute to those who, by attempting to re-fashion her, profane
her.--_Mazzini._

~Necessity.~--Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors of any kind,
which as seldom fall to those who really want them, as to those who
really deserve them.--_Fielding._

It is observed in the golden verses of Pythagoras, that power is never
far from necessity. The vigor of the human mind quickly appears when
there is no longer any place for doubt and hesitation, when diffidence
is absorbed in the sense of danger, or overwhelmed by some resistless
p