Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

37 Famous Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“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.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.”
Accuracy Quotes
“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.”
Affection Quotes
“A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.”
Disease Quotes
“A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.”
Grave Quotes
“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 past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.”
Health Quotes
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart. What jailer so inexorable as one's self? -Nathaniel Hawthorne.”
Heart-quotes Quotes
“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.”
Melancholy Quotes
“The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.”
Monument Quotes
“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.”
Property Quotes
“The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.”
Punishment Quotes