658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.