Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
What other dungeon is so dark as one`s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one`s self!
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
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.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream
Mountains are earth`s undecaying monuments.
