"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature." ― Joseph Addison Topic(s): Nature Tags: inconsistency, mutability, temper More From Joseph Addison "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." "To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man." "No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority." More In Nature "A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have."― Wallace Stevens "The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."― Thomas Huxley "Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."― Saint Augustine