In strength man is surpassed by the brutes; beauty is but outward show .-- CH.

IX.

The source of men's error in following these phantoms of good is that _they break up and separate that which is in its nature one and indivisible_.
Contentment, power, reverence, renown, and joy are essentially bound up one with the other, and, if they are to be attained at all, must be attained _together_.

True happiness, if it can be found, will include them all.

But it cannot be found among the perishable things hitherto considered .-- CH.