Young Goodman Brown QUOTES

1 " The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds--the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , Young Goodman Brown

3 " Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , Young Goodman Brown

5 " A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , Young Goodman Brown

7 " There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , Young Goodman Brown

9 " That old woman taught me my catechism!" said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , Young Goodman Brown

11 " Young Goodman Brown came forth, at sunset, into the street of Salem village, but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife.

And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave, a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grand-children, a goodly procession, besides neighbors, not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tomb-stone; for his dying hour was gloom. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , Young Goodman Brown

13 " It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other. "

― Nathaniel Hawthorne , Young Goodman Brown