Ability Quote by George Sand

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

— James Anthony Froude

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation...

— Seneca the Younger

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

— Stella Gibbons

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.

— Hal Borland

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now…

— Marquis de Sade

Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

— Alfred Austin

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

— Alison Lurie

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

— Ambrose Bierce

Chance favors only those who court her.

— Charles Nicolle