Egotism is nature’s compensation for mediocrity.
Nature Quotes
If the natural course of things were perfectly right and satisfactory, to act at all would be a gratuitous meddling, which, as it could not make things better, must make them worse. Or if action at all could be justified, it would only be when in direct obedience to instincts, since these might perhaps be […]
It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so.
Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
All Nature is but Art unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And spite of Pride, in erring Reason’s spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
