I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to… — 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
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much… — 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
