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
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“You are my evil spirit, you and the hard, coarse world! The leaden thoughts and the despondency that you fling upon me… — 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