To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.
Rugged and c as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
Manners are the lubricating oil of an organization. It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
The writing in this book gives us a vocabulary and a way of seeing. But ultimately, with these words resonating in our consciousness, we must turn to the book of nature itself. It matters how we think about and touch this place during our brief and precious time in the world…it can come to reside in us as surely as we reside in it.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.