“I find nothing so singular in life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Shall we not spend our immortal life together? Surely, surely, we have ransomed one another, with all this woe!” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read… — 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
The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It is a very genuine admiration, that with which persons too shy or too awkward to take a due part in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“His was the profession at that era in which intellectual ability displayed itself far more than in political life; for—leaving a higher… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“They are ordinarily men to whom forms are of paramount importance. Their field of action lies among the external phenomena of life.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another’s actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own. So strangely… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances… — 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
“It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts...” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. — 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
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — 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
“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
