Quotes by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, >>

It is a good lesson --though it may often be a hard one --for a man wh >>

Quotations about Patriotism

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. P >>

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, a >>

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shri >>

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel