Blacklock Nature

Famous quotes containing the words blacklock and/or nature:

    The wise in every age conclude,
    What Pyrrho taught and Hume renewed,
    That dogmatists are fools.
    —Thomas Blacklock (1721–1791)

    Man is fallen; nature is erect, and serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentiment in man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)