Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs can kill us, if we do not walk circumspectly.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image.

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity, and that if there is not, every imaginary sign of his existence might vanish : in short, let nature speak distinctly, or be totally silent, and I shall know what course to take.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.