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.
"Nathaniel Hawthorne" was an American literature/American novelist and short story writer.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Nathaniel Hawthorne on Wikipedia.The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid.
Time flies over us, but leaves it's shadow behind.
I do not want to be a doctor and live by men's diseases, nor a minister to live by their sins, nor a lawyer and live by their quarrels. So, I don't see that there is anything left for me but to be an author.
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.
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.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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.
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.
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom!
For my own part, having had much trouble in growing old, I am in no hurry to grow young again.
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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.
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.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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