Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes

1804–1864 · Salem, Massachusetts

• …the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.

• She is my happiness! — she is my torture, none the less!

• The world's law was no law for her mind.

• It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

• Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!

• No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.