To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
Human Nature Quotes
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Nothing prevents our being natural so much as the desire to appear so.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Human nature will not change. In any great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to […]
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature – a type nowhere at present existing.
Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.
