Skilfully Wrought Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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

“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

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Generosity is the flower of justice.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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

“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

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