Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

There are a lot of conservative people a lot of moderate people Republicans Democrats in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections constitute the perfection of human nature.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.

To become an able and successful man in any profession three things are necessary nature study and practice.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature but result from the social process which creates man.

You can't just let nature run wild.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but at the same time want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

In nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else which is before it beside it under it and over it.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures but the foolish to be a slave to them.

When we think of the major threats to our national security the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores one from nature not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.