A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense! — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and… — 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
