A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

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.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

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.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Easy reading is damn hard writing.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

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.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Life is made up of marble and mud.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

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.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

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 the true.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

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.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote