Famous Quotes / Nathaniel Hawthorne
53 Quotations by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 41. Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
- 42. Sunlight is painting.
- 43. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally pr ...
- 44. The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self ...
- 45. The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratif ...
- 46. The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
- 47. The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself ...
- 48. This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
- 49. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the ...
- 50. What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
- 51. Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and ...
- 52. Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and ...
- 53. Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair ...