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
What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's… — 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
Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to… — 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… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while… — 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
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share
