Nathaniel Hawthorne

American

About Nathaniel Hawthorne

American novelist and short-story writer who wrote The Scarlet Letter and the tale Young Goodman Brown.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be true! Be true! Be true!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne