There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“A modern child could teach old Hepzibah more than old Hepzibah could teach the child.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Children came running with their mothers' scissors, or the carving knife, or the paternal razor, or anything else that lacked an edge… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The child probably overheard their voices; for, looking up to the window, with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Lo! there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad, with its despairing awfulness, as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“What a strange, sad man is he!" said the child, as if speaking partly to herself. "In the dark night-time, he calls… — 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
