“...daily receiving the old physician in his study; or visiting the laboratory, and, for recreation's sake, watching the processes by which weeds… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Another phenomenon, still more strikingly modern, was a package of lucifer matches, which, in old times, would have been thought actually to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I have an almost miraculous power of escaping from necessities of this kind. Destiny itself has often been worsted in the attempt… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The child probably overheard their voices; for, looking up to the window, with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule?" asked Scicpio. "And what for do you look so black at me?" "No matter,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had… — 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
