Quotes by : Nathaniel Hawthorne

Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that....

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should....

And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still lower....

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the....

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

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of....

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship....

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement....

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he....