658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.

...and we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.

We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.