Arthur Dimmesdale

"There is no one in the world whom I could speak freely."

"I stand upon the scaffold of the pillory with this woman."

"Better to die than to remain thus!"

"What have you to do with my inmost being?"

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"Thou and I, Hester,—what have we to do with all this moss-grown and flabby success?"

"Better to die than to live in this disordered state!"

"Thou wilt forgive me!—wilt thou not?"

"I feel no love, nor feigned love, for this woman!"

"Thou hast wronged neither me nor it! There is no law, nor reverence for authority, nor regard for human ordances."

"Come, therefore, and pluck down with me this flower of my sin!"

"he could not abide the thoughts of committing himself to an irredeemable doom"

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world"

"Thou art cruel! Be merciful"

"thy acts are like mercy and not like malice"

"Behold, I stand upon the scaffold of the pillory, and beside me is the woman of the scarlet letter"

"Hadst thou sought the whole earth over, could not find another being so peculiarly related to the guilt and to the agony of the sinner"

"Better to die than to live in falsehood."

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

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

"None of us deserves punishment more than I do."

"I am not the man I pretend to be."

"Better to die than to live as I do now."

"I can bear his weight no longer."

"We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world."

"Forgive me, Hester, if thy sin has taught me something."

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"Thou and I, Hester, never knew what prayer is."

"Thou shalt forgive me!"