Nathaniel Hawthorne

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

Nathaniel Hawthorne "Passages from the American Notebooks"

Life and Death

"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."

Nathaniel Hawthorne "English Notebooks"

Various

Woman and Man

"Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Marble Faun"

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics