There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise

Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the father of the family, some man against whom they had no personal feeling, without one thought of compunction or of compassion for his weeping wife or helpless children, and yet the tender or pathetic in music could move them to tears.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

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