Dr Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
More Quotes from Nathaniel Hawthorne:
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.Nathaniel Hawthorne
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform their great deeds.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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