In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost and a price to be paid.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

It is the nature and the advantage of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

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.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.