The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness," said old Roger Chillingworth, smiling at him.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best-beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who… — 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
