Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Naturalia non sunt turpia—Natural things are without shame.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret—Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will every time come rushing back. Hor.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Pr.

Nature admits no lie. Carlyle. 20

Nature acts towards us like an Oriental potentate with Mamelukes under him, whom he employs for some mysterious purpose, but to whom he never shows himself in person. Renan.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom. Carlyle.

Nature alone is permanent. Longfellow.

Nature alone knows what she means. Goethe.

Nature always leaps to the surface, and manages 25 to show what she is. Boileau.

Nature always speaks of spirit. Emerson.