"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly rest...












Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes
"She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!
"All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
"he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.
"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes...
"Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes...
"Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows up...