"Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup." - Sara TeasdaleTweet
"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature." - Herbert SpencerTweet
"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." - Desiderius ErasmusTweet
"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace." - May SartonTweet
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." - Ingrid BergmanTweet
"There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical." - John MayerTweet
"Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable." - W. Somerset MaughamTweet
"I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever." - Hugh HefnerTweet
"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another." - Arthur SchopenhauerTweet
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." - Ralph Waldo EmersonTweet