We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.