Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Tell him he has murdered me! Tell him that I'll haunt him!”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Singular as it may appear, the sufferer had now contracted a sort of affection for his tormentor, mingled, however, with the intensest…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Ideas, which grow up within the imagination and appear so lovely to it and of a value beyond whatever men call valuable,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Little Phoebe was one of those persons who possess, as their exclusive patrimony, the gift of practical arrangement. It is a kind…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Another phenomenon, still more strikingly modern, was a package of lucifer matches, which, in old times, would have been thought actually to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“… as to the better centuries that are coming, the artist was surely right. His error lay, in supposing that his age,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The artist glanced at the inflexible image of king, commander, dame, and allegory, that stood around, on the best of which might…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“On such a Sabbath morn, were we pure enough to be its medium, we should be conscious of the earth's natural worship…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne