Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!
...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
If there really is a definable 6th sense, it would be the natural connection and the ability of communication between man and animal
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
Willow: Some things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors.
