658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.

Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.