It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued. — 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
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. — 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
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
If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes… — 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
There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“There is no decay. Each human soul is the first created inhabitant of its own Eden. We dwell in an old moss-covered… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no… — 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
