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Hawthorne QUOTES

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

  • Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  • A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

  • No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.



  • Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

  • We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

  • 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.

  • We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

  • Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

  • Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.


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