658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Let the black flower blossom as it may!

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.