It is the nature of truth in general as of some ores in particular to be richest when most superficial.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them understand them thoroughly. After that it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything even nature.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time which is my nature. But I was enjoying it and I still do enjoy it.

My nature just changes.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct not to law. Law by definition cannot obey the same rules as nature.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

There are certain pursuits which if not wholly poetic and true do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees for instance.

It is better to do one's own duty however defective it may be than to follow the duty of another however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it never sins.

Nature is not human hearted.

He who can be and therefore is another's and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend but not to have is a slave by nature.

The moral virtues then are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature indeed prepares in us the ground for their reception but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Nature is full of genius full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.