The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
...happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release... — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Methought the germ of it was dead in me! Oh, Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself—… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Thus content with an inner sphere which they inhabit together, it is not immediately that the outward world can obtrude itself upon… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face? — NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Copy Share Image
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“She assured them,too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The young deemed themselves happy. The elder spirits, if they knew that mirth was but the counterfeit of happiness, yet followed the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that,… — 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
