To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered… — 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
In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places whether in church, bedchamber, street,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do… — 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
