Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.