If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed,… — 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
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write… — 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
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one… — 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
If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of… — 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
