The natural is ever best: yet many men by learning of prowess essay to achieve fame.

The more nearly whole it is, the better it looks, and the more natural will be its flavor.

Natural, individual liberty, without law, is only barbarism.

The natural is the noble, not the debased life.

Natural as well as conventional treatment of plants is another important characteristic.

The perfectly natural is the perfectly spiritual.

Objective interest is confined to heads that think by nature; to whom thinking is as natural as breathing; and they are very rare.

Father was always anxious that we children should feel it something as natural as breathingyou are dipped up from the great river of consciousness, and death only pours you back.

In the hands of Defoe, fiction became as natural as fact.

This difficulty being got over, Othello, to whom custom had rendered the hardships of a military life as natural as food and rest are to other men, readily undertook the management of the wars in Cyprus: and Desdemona, preferring the honour of her lord (though with danger) before the indulgence of those idle delights in which new-married people usually waste their time, cheerfully consented to his going.

I never thought so before, but that night it did kind of stare in through the door as natural as life.

To-day he provoked me, and when I am mad it does me good to swear; it's as natural as lightning out of a black cloud.

Religion seeks to crown morality, not to generate it; virtue is earlier and more natural than piety.

This, in turn, melted into an extensive fortress, with, massive bastions and buttresses, flanking towers and deep embrasures, and salient and re-entering angles whose shadows and perspective were as natural as reality itself.

Though actually the work of man's handsor, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet,roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.