Inspirational Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Families are always rising and falling in America.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Generosity is the flower of justice.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne