The Scarlet Letter

"I bring thee a message from the Creator."

"Let the minister who hath done me this wrong bestir himself to gain it."

"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"

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

"My heart was never really his."

"Thou hast a sympathy which these men lack."

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

"What harm can come to thee?"

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

"Thou art not evil! thou art not lost!"

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

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

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"What earthly weight could the scarlet letter possess to torture whom thou hast tortured?"

"The letter A may mean Angel, as it surely means Able."

"Behold, I am not the judge. It belongs to Him alone."

"Thou hast deeply wronged me—hast thou not payed the price of thy transgression long enough?"

"Let the black flower blossom as it may."

"Better to die than to live in falsehood."

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

"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"

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

"thy acts are like mercy and not like malice"

"there is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him"

"Thou art cruel! Be merciful"

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

"What we did had a consecration of its own"

"the past is dead, and let it pass! A new life!--as thou sayest, a new world!"

"no cruelty could have been more refined than this"

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"