“But it were folly to lay any stress on stories of this kind, which are sure to spring up around such an… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Growing as they did, however, out of the old earth, the flowers still sent a fresh and sweet incense up to their… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Man’s own youth is the world’s youth; at least, he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth’s granite substance… — 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 our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“On such a Sabbath morn, were we pure enough to be its medium, we should be conscious of the earth's natural worship… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief that if Providence should see fit to remove him, it… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." [ Notebook , Oct. 10, 1842]” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth,… — 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
“He had a winged nature; she was rather of the vegetable kind, and could hardly be kept long alive, if drawn up… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians;… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places whether in church, bedchamber, street,… — 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
