Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

Eternal Rome

Venice is eternity itself.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

My first intellectual challenge was to try to understand this incredible city of Banaras (also called Varanasi) in India and its meaning for Hindus. That was the place I lived for the first year I was in India and I've been back many times. It's a kind of home to me.

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

By many a temple half as old as Time.

I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.

The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.