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| By nature all men are alike, but by education widely different. Chinese. | 1 |
| Drive away nature and back it comes at a gallop. | 2 |
| He that follows nature is never out of his way. | 3 |
| If we shut nature out at the door, she will come in at the window. Sir Roger L’Estrange. | 4 |
Know Nature’s children all divide her care;
The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. Pope. | 5 |
| Nature and love cannot be hid. German. | 6 |
| Nature draws more than seven oxen. German. | 7 |
| Nature equips all people with what is most expedient for them. Fielding. | 8 |
| Nature furnishes genuine gold but art makes false. German. | 9 |
| Nature has given us two ears, two eyes and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak. Socrates. | 10 |
| Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue cannot reach it. Quintus Curtius Rufus. | 11 |
| Nature is beyond all teaching. | 12 |
| Nature is content with little. Latin. | 13 |
| Nature is frugal and her wants are few. Young. | 14 |
| Nature is a frugal mother and never gives without measure. Emerson. | 15 |
| Nature is stronger than education. | 16 |
| Nature must obey necessity. | 17 |
| Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. | 18 |
| Nature never says one thing and science another. Juvenal. | 19 |
| Nature on all like powers has not bestowed. Horace. | 20 |
| Nature requires little—fancy much. German. | 21 |
| Nature passes nurture. | 22 |
| Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor. | 23 |
| Nature teaches us to love our friends but religion our enemies. | 24 |
| Nature, the vicar of Almightie God. Chaucer. | 25 |
| One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Shakespeare. | 26 |
| The nature of things will not be altered by our fancies of them. | 27 |
| The secret powers of nature are generally discovered unsolicited. Hans Andersen. | 28 |
| Though you cast out nature with a fork it will still return. | 29 |
| Though you expel nature with a club, she will always return. Latin. | 30 |
| What belongs to nature lasts to the grave. Italian. | 31 |
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