"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature"

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

"The sound of the human voice is the best of nature but only if it comes out from the feelings"

"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience"

"A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him"

"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest"

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature"

"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal"

"It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest"

"I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest"

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership"