You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.