Pastoral Resources

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have no art.

We are not by nature cruel.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.