Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

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

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.”

“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”