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 veils God," but what I see of Him in nature is not veiled. Goethe.

Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish. Carlyle.

Nature will not be Buddhist; she resents generalising, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million of fresh particulars. Emerson.

Nature without discipline is of small force, and discipline without nature more feeble. John Lily.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; 35 learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. Plutarch.

Nature works after such eternal, necessary, divine laws, that the Deity himself could alter nothing in them. Goethe, after Spinoza.

Nature works on the method of all for each and each for all. Emerson.

Nature works very hard, and only hits the white once in a million throws. In mankind, she is contented if she yields one master in a century. Emerson.

Nature's above art. Lear, iv. 6.

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. 40 Duke of Buckingham.