You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

Reason is a supple nymph and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Human nature is evil and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

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 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.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost and a price to be paid.