Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The customs of your tribe are not laws of nature.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature - a type nowhere at present existing.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature — opposition to it, in his love of justice.

Streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.