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

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Topics: Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Sunlight is painting.

Sunlight is painting.

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

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

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

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

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which,...

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which,...

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to...

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to...

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it...

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it...

Moonlight is sculpture.

Moonlight is sculpture.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man...

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man...

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit,...

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit,...

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections...

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections...

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art...

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art...

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot...

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot...

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the...

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the...

That's the difference between movies and real life. In real life, you don't always get...

That's the difference between movies and real life. In real life, you don't always get...

True love stories should never have a happy ending, because true love stories never end...

True love stories should never have a happy ending, because true love stories never end...