Quotes by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a tro >>

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and >>

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obta >>

Quotations about Literature

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessar >>

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in ou >>

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. >>

It is a good lesson --though it may often be a hard one --for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel