The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.


Chapter I: The Prison Door - The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their...

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their...

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their...

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their...