A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys Quotes

“His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book: Heroes and Monsters of Greek Mythology

“...people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book: Heroes and Monsters of Greek Mythology

“Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book: Heroes and Monsters of Greek Mythology

“إن جدتي قالت لي يوما إن هذه العين كانت يوما ما امرأة جميلة. ولما قتل ولدها بسهام الصائدة (ديانا) ذابت نفسها حسرات وتحولت هي كلهاإلى دموع، وعلى ذلك فإن هذا الماء الذي وجدته عذبا باردا إن هو إلا نفثات قلب هذه الأم الثكلى”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, كتاب العجائب

“take just one peep!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys: Greek Mythology for Kids

“What could it be,”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys: Greek Mythology for Kids

“Where is she?”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys: Greek Mythology for Kids

“Ninety-nine people out of a hundred, I suppose, would have been frightened out of their wits by the very first of his ugly shapes, and would have taken
to their heels at once. For, one of the hardest things in this world is, to see the difference between real dangers and imaginary ones.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys