The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.