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  ...full of sunshine, and its depths are more brilliant than the open plain or the mountain-tops. The trees are sunshine, and, many of the golden leaves being freshly fallen, the glen is strewn with sunshine, amid which winds and gurgles the bright, dark little brook.
December 1st.--I saw a dandelion in bloom near the lake.
December 19th.--If the world were crumbled to the finest dust, and scattered through the universe, there would not be an atom of the dust for each star.
" Generosity is the flower of justice.   "
The print in blood of a naked foot to be traced through the street of a town.
Sketch of a personage with the malignity of a witch, and doing the mischief attributed to one,--but by natural means; breaking off love-affairs, teaching children vices, ruining men of wealth, etc.
Ladislaus, King of Naples, besieging the city of Florence, agreed to show mercy, provided the inhabitants would deliver to him a certain virgin of famous beauty, the daughter of a physician of the city. When...   Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Excerpt from Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. · This quote is tagged Generosity · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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