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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
