All NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Quotes about “Eyes”

“When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality.”
“There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.”
“When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.”
“It was one of those momentsâ€”which sometimes occur only at the interval of yearsâ€”when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.”
“Men of cold passions have quick eyes.”
“At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.”

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