Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
— Henry Ward Beecher
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.
— Henry Villard
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
— Henry Rollins
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.
— Henry Moore
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
— Henry Knox
My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.
— Henry Grunwald
All nature wears one universal grin.
— Henry Fielding
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
— Henry Cantwell Wallace
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
— Henry Adams
After a summer trip to Switzerland, which was rich in experiences, I started writing. In the beginning, I aimed at descriptions of nature and folk life until, as the years passed, the description of man became my chief interest.
— Henrik Pontoppidan
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
— Henri Poincare
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
— Henry Taylor
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.
— Henry Norris Russell
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
— Henry Miller
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
— Henry Kissinger
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
— Henry Fuseli
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
— Henry Beston
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
A forest bird never wants a cage.
— Henrik Ibsen
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.
— Henry W. Kendall
You know, I love stop-motion. I've done almost all the styles of animation: I was a 2D animator. I've done cutout animation. I did a CG short a few years ago, 'Moongirl,' for young kids. Stop-motion is what I keep coming back to, because it has a primal nature. It can never be perfect.
— Henry Selick
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
— Henry Morton Stanley
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
— Henry L. Stimson
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
— Henry James
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.
— Henry B. Eyring
The Brazilians are amazing in their nature. You cannot describe it; you must feel that warmth when you're around them to understand.
— Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
— Henri Rousseau
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
