Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthornewas an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 July 1804
CountryUnited States of America
friendship writing family-and-friends
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.
thinking artist perspective
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
friendship nature intimate
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
love life heart
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
life mud made
Life is made up of marble and mud.
pain painting sunlight
Sunlight is painting.
nature climbing mountain
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
happiness men joy
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
men appreciate intellectual
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
love selfish inspire
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
death mood should
Death should take me while I am in the mood.
passion purpose principles
But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.
inward pleasure
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.
taken garden sight
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.