Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Expression, Soul, Lucky

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.2153, Delphi Classics

• Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Office, Age, Genius

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1846). “Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts”, p.18

• As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Feelings, Brotherhood

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.107, Lulu.com

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