Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I thi...
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
