There were many who thought it must be very important for K. to find Lanz the joiner and thought long about it, naming a joiner who was not called Lanz or giving a name that had some vague similarity with Lanz, or they asked neighbours or accompanied K. to a door a long way away where they thought someone of that sort might live in the back part of the building or where someone would be who could advise K. better than they could themselves.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

393 It is a singular thing to consider that there are people in the world who, having renounced all the laws of God and nature, have made laws for themselves which they strictly obey, as, for instance, the soldiers of Mahomet, robbers, heretics, etc.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

But the laws of motion and the law of gravitation, which account for the fact that most bodies fall, also account for the fact that balloons and aeroplanes can rise; thus the laws of motion and the law of gravitation are not subject to these exceptions.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

(ᾰ.) Ὅσιος , ία, ιον, pr. sanctioned by the supreme law of God and nature; pious, devout, Tit. 1.8; pure, 1 Ti. 2.8; supremely holy, Ac. 2.27; 13.35.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

But though there be a time when a child comes to be as free from subjection to the will and command of his father, as the father himself is free from subjection to the will of any body else, and they are each under no other restraint, but that which is common to them both, whether it be the law of nature, or municipal law of their country; yet this freedom exempts not a son from that honour which he ought, by the law of God and nature, to pay his parents.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

These are the bounds which the trust, that is put in them by the society, and the law of God and nature, have set to the legislative power of every commonwealth, in all forms of government.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The banks, less rich than those of the lake of Geneva and Neuchatel, form a beautiful decoration, especially towards the western part, which is well peopled, and edged with vineyards at the foot of a chain of mountains, something like those of Cote-Rotie, but which produce not such excellent wine.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One man to one woman is the law of God and nature.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Thirty-six samples were subjected to various levels of glycerol and no significant difference in freezability was found between 6 and 8 percent.
— from Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by W. J. Miller

The Church can dispense from or remove the impediments to marriage that arise from its own laws; but it cannot dispense from impediments that arise from the laws of God and nature.
— from A Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Anonymous

Inharmony, disease and pain are caused by living a life contrary to the laws of God and Nature.
— from Food for the Traveler What to Eat and Why by Dora C. C. L. (Dora Cathrine Cristine Liebel) Roper

The laws of God are not obligatory on us because they are the enactments of His POWER, or the expression of His WILL; but because they express His infinite WISDOM.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

The love of God and neighbor; An equal-handed labor; The richer life, where beauty Walks hand in hand with duty. Ring, bells in unreared steeples, The joy of unborn peoples!
— from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

The answer is, that it is not less universal than the law of gravitation and no more so.
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

[200] It is possible that when the feudal oath was exacted from the more important barons, permission was given to them to build castles for themselves; thus we hear from Ordericus of the castle of Aquila, built in the days of Duke Richard; the castle of the lords of Grantmesnil at Norrei; the castle of Belesme; all of which appear to have been private castles.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

However painful it may be to the historian of culture to record the mournful facts of degeneracy and demoralization of entire periods in the life of great and noble nations, yet he owes it to historical truth to conceal nothing.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld