Quotes from Nathanial Hawthorne

all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.

Wilt thou still worship the destroyer, and surround her image with fantasies the more magnificent, the more evil she has wrought? Thus man doth ever to his tyrants.

The chasm was merely one of the orifices of that pit of blackness that lies beneath us..

I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.

And here his descendants have been born and died, and have mingled their earthly substance with the soil, until no small portion of it necessarily be akin to the mortal frame where with, for a little while, I walk the streets