Nature that framed us of four elements warring within our breasts for regiment doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

As a means of contrast with the sublime the grotesque is in our view the richest source that nature can offer.

In the general course of human nature A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Words like nature half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond and the lover makes the woman.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

For greed all nature is too little.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince and to understand the nature of the prince one must be of the people.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

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.