Pastoral Resources

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.