By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature cannot touch with decay.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.