That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.