658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.