658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Growing as they did, however, out of the old earth, the flowers still sent a fresh and sweet incense up to their Creator...

I shall do better amongst other faces; and these familiar ones, it need hardly be said, will do just as well without me.

She perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon.

On Andrew Jackson: “His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.

Let us choose the rudest, roughest, most uncultivable spot, for Death’s garden ground; and Death shall teach us to beautify it, grave by grave.

Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet!

Thus from beneath the black veil there rolled a cloud into the sunshine, an ambiguity of sin or sorrow, which enveloped the poor minister, so that love or sympathy could never reach him.

The muddy tide of the Thames, reflecting nothing, and hiding a million unclean secrets within its breast... is just the dismal stream to glide by such a city.

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly arranged and well-provisioned breakfast table