Quotes by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limit >>

Quotations about Museums and Galleries

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or >>

Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the >>

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. D >>

Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel