Pastoral Resources

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Nature has different times.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.