Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Man is but a reed the most feeble thing in nature but he is a thinking reed.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over the wound is closed and healed done with.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Borrow trouble for yourself if that's your nature but don't lend it to your neighbours.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

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

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit just as habit is a second nature.

Man's true nature being lost everything becomes his nature as his true good being lost everything becomes his good.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race what is sweeter to a man than his children?

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature 'human' might be the greater insult.

There is but one law for all namely that law which governs all law the law of our Creator the law of humanity justice equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

The psychical whatever its nature may be is itself unconscious.

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

In nature nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted bent in weird ways and they're still beautiful.