“Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.”

“But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.’ We are not to think that the Son of God as he is God did not know the day or hour but only that his human nature did not know it because his divine nature had not chosen to reveal it to his human nature.”

“Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ”

“Nature gave man two ends -- one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.”

“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.”

“For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.”