The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.


Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne... In Two Volumes... (ed. 1868)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of...

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of...

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of...

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of...