658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

We all go wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men

How is it possible to say an unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and it important in some respect whether he chooses to be or not.

They averred that the symbol was not mere scarlet cloth tinged in an earthly dyepot, but was red-hot with infernal fire, and could be seen glowing all alight whenever Hester Prynne walked abroad in the nighttime. And we must needs say it seared Hester’s bosom so deeply, that perhaps there was more truth in the rumor than our modern incredulity may be inclined to admit.

Words so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

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.

Externally, the jollity of aged men has much in common with the mirth of children.