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
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the… — 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
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
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — 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
