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

Nature has no feeling; the sun gives his light to good and bad alike, and moon and stars shine out for the worst of men as for the best. Goethe.

Nature has no moods; they belong to man alone. Auerbach.

Nature has planted passions in the heart of 15 man for the wisest purposes both of religion and life. Fox.

Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of man's own making. Addison.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. / Some that will evermore peep through their eyes / And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper; / And other of such vinegar aspect / That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, / Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. Mer. of Venice, i. 1.

Nature hath made nothing so base but can / Read some instruction to the wisest man. Aleyn.

Nature here shows art, / That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart. Mid. N. Dream, ii. 8.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt 20 over every man's head. Ward Beecher.

Nature in women is so nearly allied to art. Goethe.

Nature in you stands on the very verge / Of her confine. King Lear, ii. 4.