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
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! — 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
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and other bareheaded, was… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
London is like the grave in one respect -- any man can make himself at home there; and whenever a man finds… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to… — 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 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
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes. — 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
