Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. – Jonathan Swift
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life. – Thomas Hobbes
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. – Lord Chesterfield
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. – Eleanora Duse
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. – Nikita Khrushchev
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. – Paul Cezanne
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. – Paul Cezanne
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature. – Paul Cezanne
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. – Paul Cezanne
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. – John Stuart Mill
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature. – Christopher Morley
Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. – Gustave Flaubert
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. – Charles Baudelaire
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. – William Cowper
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nature is perfect. – William Shatner
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. – Marquis de Sade
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
