It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance. Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into sentence: Be True! Be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The moral which presents itself to my reflections, as drawn from Hollingsworth's character and errors, is simply this, that, admitting what is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently 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 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
