Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.