In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.