Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.