The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

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.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

In the general course of human nature A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

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.