The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.