As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

His works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature.

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787 It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.

You know, it's almost human nature. If you give me a gift, I feel indebted to you... assuming it's a substantial gift.