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
happiness smile laughter
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
onions literature coats
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
wisdom self doubt
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
tales improbability marvelous
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
agreement long propositions
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
suicide ideas literature
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
inspirational-love hate anger
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
loss passing-moments self
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]
giving alarms unnecessary
But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.
children world this-world
There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.
country republican wave
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.
heart light dungeons
In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence...
dream heart evil
Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.
heart agony bitterness
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!