Famous quotes containing the word hawthorne:
“Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.”
—Leon Edel (b. 1907)
“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove ones 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 (18041864)
“A womans chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864)
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