If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster.


The Blithedale Romance (ed. 1852)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities,...

If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities,...

If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities,...

If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities,...