The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
As regards the individual nature woman is defective and misbegotten for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
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.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
I love not man the less but Nature more.
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.