658 Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

When we were at a little distance from the church, the bells suddenly chimed out with a most cheerful sound, and sunny as the morning.

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.

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

What we call real estate -- the solid ground to build a house on -- is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. A man will commit almost any wrong -- he will heap an immense pile of wickedness, as hard as granite, and which will weigh as heavily upon his soul, to eternal ages -- only to build a great, gloomy, dark-chambered mansion, for himself to die in.

Monument Mountain, in the early sunshine; its base enveloped in mist, part of which are floating in the sky, so that the great hill looks really as if it were founded on a cloud.

Eight more chickens hatched. Ascended a mountain with my wife; a beautiful, mellow, autumnal sunshine.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is just out of grasp. But if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

In the afternoons, nowadays, this valley in which I dwell seems like a vast basin filled with golden sunshine as with wine.

Lying by the lake yesterday afternoon, with my eyes shut, while the waves and sunshine were playing together on the water, the quick glimmer of the wavelets was perceptible through my closed eyelids.