There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
-
-
Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Generosity is the flower of justice.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Sunlight is painting.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE