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
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim… — 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
My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have… — 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
Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as… — 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… — 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! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! — 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
“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