“Pray, who are you, beautiful creature?” inquired Pandora. “I am to be called Hope!” answered the sunshiny figure. “And because I am such a cheery little body, I was packed into the box, to make amends to the human race for that swarm of ugly Troubles, which was destined to be let loose among them. […]
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person’s expense!
A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may 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.
(Towards the end of a long buggy trip in the country now under a full moon) the little man behaved himself still like an old traveler; but sometimes he looked round at me from the front seat (where he sat between Herman Melville and Evert Duyckinck) and smiled at me with a peculiar expression, and […]
A woman’s chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
He can neither believe, nor be comfortable in his unbelief; and he is too honest and courageous not to try to do one or the other.
All women, as authors, are feeble and tiresome. I wish they were forbidden to write, on pain of having their faces deeply scarified with an oyster shell.
