Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.”

“Life is made up of marble and mud.”

“Moonlight is sculpture.”

“All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.”

“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.”

“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.”

“The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.”

“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”

“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”

“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”