Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.