Joseph Addison Nature Quotations

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty