Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.