Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our… — 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
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool. — 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
A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House. — 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
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
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
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and… — 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
