Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes about Literature

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

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Literature, Forests, Happens

The Scarlet Letter ch. 22 (1850)

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Onions, Literature, Coats

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.476, e-artnow

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Literature, Might, Soil

1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.1.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Suicide, Ideas, Literature

Nathaniel Hawthorne (2004). “The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance”, p.112, Broadview Press