658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

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

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?

Life is made up of marble and mud.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.