132 quotes found
“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
“It was one of those momentswhich sometimes occur only at the interval of yearswhen a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself ...”
“...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.”
“That old woman taught me my catechism!" said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.”
“He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her t...”
“Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”
“Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The innumerable forms that wander in nothingness start into being at thy bec...”
“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.”
“An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and m...”
“Many people are seeking, at this very moment, to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle; imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eider-down pill...”
“I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs. That was all. But, nevertheless, it is any thing but agreeable to be haunted...”
“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate rev...”
“Lo! there ye stand, my children," said the figure, in a deep and solemn tone, almost sad, with its despairing awfulness, as if his once angelic nature could yet mourn for our miserable race. "Depen...”
“A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.”
“She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!”
“In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character bot...”
“Be it sin or no, I hate the man!”
“Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of ...”
“...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.”
“O Fiend, whose talisman was that fatal symbol, wouldst thou leave nothing, whether in youth or age, for this poor sinner to revere?such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.”
