Quotes Nathaniel Hawthorne

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world....

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it....

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile,...

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of c...

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dish...

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections ...

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary ...

Easy reading is damn hard writing....

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is imp...

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. ...

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just...

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always...

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelou...

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectua...

Life is made up of marble and mud....

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumbe...

Moonlight is sculpture....

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments....

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should en...

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to hims...

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilitie...

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures o...

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have...

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst...

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