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

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

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.

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

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

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

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

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.