Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.