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.