Good Nature Quotes

• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Wisdom, Nature

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  Washington Irving

  Attitude, Sea, Weather

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.263, Penguin

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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  Attitude, Air, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.67

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• Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Beauty, Kindness, Absence

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.402

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• A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, World, Whole

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works”, p.388

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• Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stronger

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.

  Henry Fielding

  Hero, Men, Order

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• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

  Joseph Addison

  Quality, Literature, Gains

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• Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

  John Dryden

  Mean, Ignorant, World

  John Dryden (1750). “Select essays on the belles lettres”, p.95

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• Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fruit, Christianity, True Christianity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.410

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• Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

  Henry Fielding

  Mind, Virtue, Contemplation

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.645

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• Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

  Marya Mannes

  Men, Our Society, Fellowship

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

  Nigel Dennis

  Book, Years, Two

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• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Self, Denial, Littles

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Educational, Men

  1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.

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• Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

  William Cowper

  Nature, Travel, Names

  William Cowper, “The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon”

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• I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Horse, Moments

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 36e, 1980.

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• There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Bottom, Good Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1138, Delphi Classics

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• Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Men, Paradise

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

  William Shenstone

  Taste, Connected

  William Shenstone (1794). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.96

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