“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born of Gods care for every need. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice when too strenuously demanded as a right; but… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“By all appreciable signs, they loved; they had looked love, with eyes that conveyed the holy secret from the depths of one… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Methought the germ of it was dead in me! Oh, Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself—… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Singular as it may appear, the sufferer had now contracted a sort of affection for his tormentor, mingled, however, with the intensest… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Thou are my only reality-- all other people are but shadows to me: all events and actions, in which thou dost not… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
“What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster, which, after all,—though we can point to every feature of his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
