Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel HawthorneMots clés happiness pursuit follow incendentally wild-goose-chase
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
Nathaniel HawthorneMots clés love passion heart marriage
...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.
Nathaniel HawthorneMots clés humor happiness puritan
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.
Nathaniel Hawthorne...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.
Nathaniel HawthorneMots clés sadness heart sorrow tomb
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Nathaniel HawthorneThere is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
Nathaniel HawthorneAmong many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into sentence: Be True! Be True! Be True! Show freely to the world if not the worst, yet some trait whereby the worst can be inferred.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
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