658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)

A trait si-a iubit si asta face si acum! In trandafirul asta de-o frumusete perfecta nu mai e nici o petala nedeschisa, nici o picatura de roua pe care n-au vazut-o razele soarelui.

Thou shalt say a thousand things, and saying them a thousand times over, thou shalt still have said nothing!

Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.

Sunlight is painting.

If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.

No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.