N. NAME. Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas A great name without merit is like an epi- Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tantaph on a coffin. - Mme. de Puisieux. ley, and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage? G. A. Sala. How many names, in the long sweep of time, that so foreshortens greatness, may but To possess a good cognomen is a long way on hang on the chance mention of some fool that the road of success in life. - Chamfort. once brake bread with us, perhaps.- Tennyson. My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age. Bacon. I do beseech you in my prayers chiefly that I may set it what is your name? Shakspeare. I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in How dear is our native land to all noble the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, hearts! Voltaire. apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful. George Macdonald. Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse to all inac So true it is, that Nature has caprices which tion. Goethe. art cannot imitate. Macaulay. It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of Nature's productions, either for beauty or value. - Hume. What is Nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me - Carlyle. In the administration of a State, neither a woman as a woman nor a man as a man has any special function; but the gifts of Nature are equally diffused in both sexes. Plato. A noble nature can alone attract the noble, and alone knows how to retain them. — Goethe. One has not far to seek for book-nature, artist-nature, every variety of superinduced Nature and nurture unite to form the perfect nature, in short, but genuine human nature woman. Pascal. is hard to find. And how good it is! Wholesome as a potato; fit company for any dish. Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world. T. Starr King. Laboring art can never ransom Nature from her inaidable estate. - Shakspeare. Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand. The eye craves the spectacle of the horizon, of mountain, ocean, river, and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll. Alcott. Nature is poetic, but not mankind. When one aims at truth, it is easier to find the poetic side of Nature than of man. X. Doudan. NATURE. Nature is an absolute and jealous divinity. Lovely, eloquent, and instructive in all her inequalities and contrasts, she hides her face, and remains mute to those who, by attempting O Nature! enrich me with the knowledge of to refashion her, profane her. - Mazzini. thy works; snatch me to heaven. - Thomson. Nature is an Æolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. - Novalis. Nothing in Nature, much less conscious boing, was e'er created solely for itself. — Young. Extremes in Nature equal ends produce. Pope. Nature, through all her works, in great degree borrows a blessing from variety. Churchill. Nature's great law, and law of all men's mind. To its own impulse every creature stirs ; live by thy light, and earth will live by hers. - Matthew Arnold. Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in everywhere. Emerson. Nature is God's Old Testament. Theodore Parker. Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. - Shakspeare. Divine Providence has spread her table everywhere, not with a juiceless green carpet, but Drive away what springs from Nature; it with succulent herbage and nourishing grass, returns at a gallop. P. N. Destouches. upon which most beasts feed. - Sir T. More. All Nature is a vast symbolism; every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. Chapin. Nature is no sentimentalist, does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman, but swallows your ships like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons. Emerson. |