“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
1804 – 1864
American novelist, author of "The Scarlet Letter".
“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.”
“How slowly I have made my way in life! How much is still to be done!”
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
“She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief.”
“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”
“The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.”
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.”
“It is because the spirit is inestimable that the lifeless body is so little valued.”
“Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.”
“Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows.”
