Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Honesty, Integrity, Writing

  1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.

• The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Literature, Might, Soil

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.1.

• Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Heart, Evil

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.53, Lulu.com

• Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  People, Routine, Virtue

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