“All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but outlawed,… — 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… — 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
