What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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 Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak
Ethics And Morality |
Nathaniel Hawthorne quoteIt is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote Biography
American novelist, 1804 - 64
