Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places whether in church, bedchamber, street,… — 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
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,… — 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
