Maxioms by Nathaniel Hawthorne
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both
sides they seldom come at once to the matter read more
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both
sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most
at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact
with it.
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.
Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; read more
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he
throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every
human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting read 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 may be true.
