658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence.

Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman’s beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne.

It is a comfortable thought, that the smallest and most turbid mud-puddle can contain its own picture of Heaven.

Keep the imagination sane – that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

God”, said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, “God will give him blood to drink!

I had neglected to provide myself with books, and as we crept along at the dull rate of four miles per hour, I soon felt the foul fiend Ennui coming upon me.

It is the surest test of genuine love, that it brings back our early simplicity to the worldliest of us.

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones, – others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.