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 must obey necessity. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

Nature, mysterious even under the light of day, is not to be robbed of her veil; and what she does not choose to reveal you will not extort from her with levers and screws. Goethe.

Nature needs little, fancy (Wahn) much. Gr. Pr.

Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her. Wordsworth.

Nature never hurries; atom by atom, little 15 by little, she achieves her work. Emerson.

Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation. Sterne.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul. Emerson.

Nature owns no man who is not a martyr withal. Carlyle.

Nature passes nurture. Pr.

Nature respects race and not hybrids. Knox. 20