What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.