Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that; it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. It will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

—Leo Tolstoy

Oh, the powers of nature. She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing.

—Benvenuto Cellini

All nature wears one universal grin.

—Henry Fielding

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

—Wallace Stevens

It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals.

—Esther Warner Dendel