"The course of Nature is the art of God."

"Individuality is a cultural achievement rather than a gift of nature. During the 19th century it was rather common for people to believe they were expressing their individuality by being "natural."

"Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification."

"Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the …"

"The Hindus who naturally resisted Muslim occupation were considered to be rebels. Besides they were idolaters and could not be accorded the status of Kafirs, of the People of the Book-Christians and J…"