Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.