We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I had neglected to provide myself with books, and as we crept along at the dull rate of four miles per hour,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could… — 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
“Being naturally of a serious turn, my attention was directed to the solid advantages derivable from a residence here, rather than to… — 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 Image
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
