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
love expression roots
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
life mud made
Life is made up of marble and mud.
pain painting sunlight
Sunlight is painting.
nature climbing mountain
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
happiness men joy
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
men appreciate intellectual
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
love selfish inspire
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
death mood should
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
passion purpose principles
But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.
inward pleasure
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.
taken garden sight
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
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.
children doors house
Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.
brother honesty twins
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.