If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.

Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.