Flower Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Let the black flower blossom as it may!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Generosity is the flower of justice.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Growing as they did, however, out of the old earth, the flowers still sent a fresh and sweet incense up to their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Just where she had paused, the brook chanced to form a pool so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne