This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy. — 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
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
No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character,… — 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
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a… — 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
It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there… — 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
