Hawthorne

Famous quotes containing the word hawthorne:

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

“We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

“The 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 it be obeyed.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)