See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.
Nathaniel HawthorneOf all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
Nathaniel HawthorneKeep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
Nathaniel HawthorneYou can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne