Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world."

"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."

"Moonlight is sculpture."

"Life is made up of marble and mud."

"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."

"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."

"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."

"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."

"Sunlight is painting."

"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!"

"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."

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."

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

"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."