There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.
Nathaniel HawthorneWe sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel HawthorneWomen are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.
Nathaniel Hawthorne