The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.
I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.
We are not by nature cruel.
Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as the food enzymes created by nature do. This results in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches that can clog your body's intestinal tract and arteries.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.
There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
I'm so comfortable on my snowboard that I don't have to think about it very much; it's somewhat second nature.
Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.