What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.