Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
(1 - 10 of 33)From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by
the right of inheritance or purchased with more
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by
the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne,
A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.
A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who more
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through
all the paths they have trodden ever more
It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through
all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender
and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were
kept warm in his mother's hand.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down more
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger
about the spot where once stood a homestead, more
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger
about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is
now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown
cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that
are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting more
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.
