Pastoral Resources

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.