Books Quote by Anonymous

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various…

— Robert Burns

“She deliberately cultivated relationships with natural philosophers, publishers, and patrons as well as artists....,contacts who would help her build her business.”

— Kim Todd

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending…

— John M. Tyler

“Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb…

— Mark Twain

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“...she acted as a kind of rough and ready chemical reagent; in certain combinations she produced certain known results.”

— Christopher Isherwood

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

— Leonardo da Vinci

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

— Albert Einstein

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Most of her contemporaries simply don't understand why she has all these paper books, or indeed all this paper. It's a hands-on craving. I…

— Carla Speed McNeil