Quotes Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love....

Sunlight is painting....

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtu...

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether o...

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasur...

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. T...

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind....

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens ...

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking ...

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jaile...

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house...

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing i...

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you ...

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

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a...

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is alway...

What a happy and holy fashion it is that t...

Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than ...

A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap...

Moonlight is sculpture. ...

Easy reading is damn hard writing. ...

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as stan...

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who lov...

Moonlight is sculpture. ...

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at e...