Fanshawe Quotes

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

“The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of the misery they witnessed; and they felt that mere curiosity would not authorize a longer intrusion. So soon, therefore, as they had relieved, according to their power, the poverty that seemed to be the least evil of this cottage, they emerged into the open air.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

“These feelings, together with the deep degradation of his mind, made him resolve that no circumstances should again draw him into an axcess of wine.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe