What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?
Nathaniel HawthorneNobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel HawthorneKeep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
Nathaniel HawthorneThose with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.
Nathaniel Hawthorne