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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yesterday I visited...
Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at...
The world owes...
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient...
Great men have...
Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform...
The only sensible...
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's...
Life is made...
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Source: The House of the Seven Gables, Ch....
Yesterday I visited...
Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at...
The world owes...
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient...
Great men have...
Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform...
The only sensible...
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's...
Life is made...
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Source: The House of the Seven Gables, Ch....