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 is a friend to truth. Young.

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. Emerson.

Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always 25 and never the same. Emerson.

Nature is a Sibyl, who testifies beforehand to what has been determined from all eternity, and was not to be realised till late in time. Goethe.

Nature is a vast trope, and all particular natures are tropes. Emerson.

Nature is always kind enough to give even her clouds a humorous lining. Lowell.

Nature is always lavish, even prodigal. Goethe.

Nature is always like herself. Linnæus. 30

Nature is always mysterious. Ward.

Nature is always right, and most profoundly so (am gründlichsten) just there where we least comprehend her. Goethe.