Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

“Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:passion enemy

“He needed to bask himself in that smile . . . in order that the chill of so many lonely hours among his books might be taken off the scholar's heart.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:loneliness books

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:humanity travel

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:humanity grief

“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:trust enemy

“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straitly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:dream

“The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice, when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:justice

“It was as if she had been made afresh, out of new elements, and must perforce be permitted to live her own life, and be a law unto herself, without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:law

“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...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:difference

“The besom of reform has swept him out of office; and a worthier successor wears his dignity, and pockets his emoluments.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:worth

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