Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people’s emotional nature.
I’ve probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
No one likes to have less than they had before. That’s the nature of the human animal.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.