One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Plot rules nor even poetry are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature of character of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Nature's great masterpiece an elephant the only harmless great thing.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood bones and hair.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain the sound of wind in a primeval wood and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature 'human' might be the greater insult.