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.
Nathaniel HawthorneGenius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.
Nathaniel HawthorneNo, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.
Nathaniel Hawthorne