Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth. "The Wedding Knell" (1837) from Twice”

“The Maypole of Merry Mount”

“Lo, there ye stand, my children,”

“By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places”

“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England's hereditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New England's sons will vindicate their ancestry. "The Gray Champion" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”

“Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system , and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. "Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”

“Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day. "Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales”

“It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections ; not that they gape so long and wide”

“Sketches from Memory”

“If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities. "Fanshawe"”