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
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
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one… — 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… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — 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
