People Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

No summer ever came back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change, and people change; and if our hearts do…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne