The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.