A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — 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
And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from… — 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
“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
