“The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!" whispered her mother. "We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken. The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Aylmer had long laid aside in unwilling recognition of the truth—against which all seekers sooner or later stumble—that our great creative Mother,… — 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
