Quotes by : Nathaniel Hawthorne

The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim....

Our first youth is of no value; for we are never conscious of it, until after it is gone. But sometimes--always,....

She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!....

Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle;....

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged....

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a....

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil....

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.