Arthur Dimmesdale

"Thou art not evil!—yet Pearl is none the less here."

"Would that I could here, and say amen!"

"Pity me!—I am not evil!"

"I am not of adamant!"

"There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of thee."

"Comfort, I pray thee, with thine own phantom!"

"The scarlet letter burning on my breast!"

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"There is a fatality, a feeling as if I had been played upon by the Devil"

"Sin, Sin, Sin!"

"Pity me!—Look at me with those blue eyes"

"Thou shalt forgive me!"

"Do I feel joy again?"

"Canst thou forgive me now?"

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"May God forgive us both!"

"Is the guilt inscribed upon my brow?"

"Better to die at once!"

"We have wronged each other into an iron necessity."

"That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin."

"That old man!—if anything could make him just, it were this!"

"What we did had a consecration of its own."

"I am not, Hester, of that iron nature that can endure well enough what is unendurable to the human soul."

"Of penance I have had enough! Of penitence too, there has been much!"

"He has made me!"

"I stand upon the scaffold of infamy!—yet better to stand here, than in thy unconfessed guilt!"

"Thou art not evil!—I am!"

"We are not, Hester, of the order of Providence."

"Come, Hester, let us fleece the world and live!"

"Do I feel joy again?—warm, real, individual existence again?"