His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip) Nathaniel Hawthorne More Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne More Quotes From Nathaniel Hawthorne Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Nathaniel Hawthorne passion love relationship Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn. Nathaniel Hawthorne autumn sunlight sun Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same—crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. Nathaniel Hawthorne fate heart character 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 heart love death A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler! Nathaniel Hawthorne may might book If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them. Nathaniel Hawthorne angel knowing death Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield) Nathaniel Hawthorne confusion forever men The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view Nathaniel Hawthorne calmer truest views We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. Nathaniel Hawthorne waking dream sleep The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him. Nathaniel Hawthorne serious men thinking Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes. Nathaniel Hawthorne substance men world Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen. Nathaniel Hawthorne waking entrepreneur sleep And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude. Nathaniel Hawthorne apples weed sweet There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles. Nathaniel Hawthorne poison ordinary quiet A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all ; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl. Nathaniel Hawthorne onions finals expectations Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible. The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into beauty; and the good old pastor, who once dwelt here, renewed his prime and regained his boyhood in the genial breeze of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and heavy soul, if, whether in youth or age, it has outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness! Nathaniel Hawthorne sunshine spring men When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it. Nathaniel Hawthorne electric-shock purpose heart A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes. Nathaniel Hawthorne sensual men facts The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere. Nathaniel Hawthorne house people ideas It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman Nathaniel Hawthorne ambition men reality
