Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthornewas an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 July 1804
CountryUnited States of America
literature might soil
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
sunset sunrise sculpture
Moonlight is sculpture.
death suicide dream
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
happiness dream wild-geese
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
inward pleasure
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.
shadow illusion
Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.
imagination heaven communion
Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
passing-away endurance consolation
This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.
utterance adequate fowl
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
holiness sin enjoyment
We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.
eden crime
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
sunshine giving pearls
No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.
ordinary poison quiet
There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
letters would-be form
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.