--- title: "22 Ifs Quotes By Nathaniel Hawthorne" description: "22 Ifs quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Plus more from Nathaniel Hawthorne and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_angel_if-human-love-hath-power-to-penetrate-th_2818506.jpg" --- > [If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/if-human-love-hath-power-to-penetrate-the-veil-and-hath-it-not-then/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_angel_if-human-love-hath-power-to-penetrate-th_2818506.jpg) > [The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-love-of-posterity-is-the-consequence-of-the-necessity-of-death-if/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/274/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_care_the-love-of-posterity-is-the-consequence_1542621.jpg) > [If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/if-the-truth-were-to-be-known-everyone-would-be-wearing-a-scarlet/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/161/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_form_if-the-truth-were-to-be-known-everyone-w_322568.jpg) > [Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/women-are-safer-in-perilous-situations-and-emergencies-than-men-and/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/246/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_chivalry_women-are-safer-in-perilous-situations-a_1542927.jpg) > [What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/what-we-need-for-our-happiness-is-often-close-at-hand-if-we-knew-but/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_hands_what-we-need-for-our-happiness-is-often_1908882.jpg) > [What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/what-would-a-man-do-if-he-were-compelled-to-live-always-in-the-sultry/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_compelled_what-would-a-man-do-if-he-were-compelled_2179548.jpg) > [Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/happiness-is-like-a-butterfly-the-more-you-chase-the-more-subtle-but/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eff/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_butterfly_happiness-is-like-a-butterfly-the-more-y_2571485.jpg) > [If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/if-cities-were-built-by-the-sound-of-music-then-some-edifices-would/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95e/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_air_if-cities-were-built-by-the-sound-of-mus_2178006.jpg) > [At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/at-no-time-are-people-so-sedulously-careful-to-keep-their-trifling/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/780/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_appointments_at-no-time-are-people-so-sedulously-care_3011340.jpg) > [If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/if-mankind-were-all-intellect-they-would-be-continually-changing-so/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f5/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_age_if-mankind-were-all-intellect-they-would_1258512.jpg) > [Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/masculine-observers-if-the-birth-mark-did-not-heighten-their/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/104/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_admiration_masculine-observers-if-the-birth-mark-di_2357250.jpg) > [When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/when-scattered-clouds-are-resting-on-the-bosoms-of-hills-it-seems-as/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ac/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_bosoms_when-scattered-clouds-are-resting-on-the_2072679.jpg) > [It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/it-will-startle-you-to-see-what-slaves-we-are-to-by-gone-times-to/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/953/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_book_it-will-startle-you-to-see-what-slaves-w_1465204.jpg) > [If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/if-we-take-the-freedom-to-put-a-friend-under-our-microscope-we/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49d/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_aspect_if-we-take-the-freedom-to-put-a-friend-u_89759.jpg) > [Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/let-us-acknowledge-it-wiser-if-not-more-sagacious-to-follow-out-one-s/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60d/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_acknowledge_let-us-acknowledge-it-wiser-if-not-more_624710.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/man-s-own-youth-is-the-world-s-youth-at-least-he-feels-as-if-it-were/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/054/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_earth_man-s-own-youth-is-the-world-s-youth-at_934059.jpg) > [The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-moment-when-a-man-s-head-drops-off-is-seldom-or-never-i-am-2/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6f/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_accidents_the-moment-when-a-man-s-head-drops-off-i_3144740.jpg) > [Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/can-man-be-so-age-stricken-that-no-faintest-sunshine-of-his-youth-may/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/301/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_age_can-man-be-so-age-stricken-that-no-faint_545878.jpg) > [The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-washing-of-dishes-does-seem-to-me-the-most-absurd-and/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e56/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_absurd_the-washing-of-dishes-does-seem-to-me-th_982303.jpg) > [America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/america-is-now-wholly-given-over-to-a-d-d-mob-of-scribbling-women-and/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/323/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_america_america-is-now-wholly-given-over-to-a-d_721026.jpg) > [If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/if-a-man-sitting-all-alone-cannot-dream-strange-things-and-make-them/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d9/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_all-alone_if-a-man-sitting-all-alone-cannot-dream_1625755.jpg) > [If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/if-we-would-know-what-heaven-is-before-we-come-thither-let-us-retire/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_depth_if-we-would-know-what-heaven-is-before-w_966970.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Nathaniel Hawthorne > [“there was something of the women molded into the great, stalwart frame of Hollingsworth; nor was he ashamed of it; as men often are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/there-was-something-of-the-women-molded-into-the-great-stalwart-frame/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-trees-reflected-in-the-river-they-are-unconscious-of-a-spiritual/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-dismaying-thing-about-the-classic-totalitarian-mind-is-that-any/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire, I longed to kindle one!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/my-heart-was-a-habitation-large-enough-for-many-guests-but-lonely-and/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/wherever-there-is-a-heart-and-an-intellect-the-diseases-of-the/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-founders-of-a-new-colony-whatever-utopia-of-human-virtue-and/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [Generosity is the flower of justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/generosity-is-the-flower-of-justice/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/he-seemed-to-be-in-quest-for-mental-food-not-heart-sustenance/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/unfathomable-to-mere-mortals-is-the-lore-of-fiends/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/possibly-he-was-in-a-state-of-second-growth-and-recovery-and-was/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/what-wonder-then-should-we-be-frightened-by-the-aspect-of-a-monster/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/as-the-architecture-of-a-country-always-follows-the-earliest/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/what-we-call-real-estate-the-solid-ground-to-build-a-house-on-is-the/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [“The bookworm of great libraries.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-bookworm-of-great-libraries/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) > [There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/there-are-many-things-in-this-world-that-a-child-must-not-ask-about/) [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/nathaniel-hawthorne/#itemlist", "name": "22 Ifs Quotes By Nathaniel Hawthorne", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nathaniel Hawthorne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/if-human-love-hath-power-to-penetrate-the-veil-and-hath-it-not-then/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_angel_if-human-love-hath-power-to-penetrate-th_2818506.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_angel_if-human-love-hath-power-to-penetrate-th_2818506.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/nathaniel-hawthorne-461_angel_if-human-love-hath-power-to-penetrate-th_2818506.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who…” — Nathaniel Hawthorne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. 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