The Scarlet Letter

"Man's most sacred trust should be the guardianship of woman's honor!"

"Thou hast forgotten nothing and forgiven nobody."

"Be not silent from fear!"

"Art thou that woman? Art thou the one whom this scarlet letter binds?"

"My old faith in the heavenly guardianship of the poor child has not forsaken me."

"Thou art not my master, and I may refuse what thou demandest."

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

"I speak with the voice of one doom-smitten."

"The sainted Mr. Dimmesdale may yet step down from his pulpit!"

"The minister! It was not so!"

"What a strange sad man is he!"

"Evil has been the module of my life."

"What have I to do with men's laws or man's opinion?"

"He despised and yet pitied the minister."

"Would that I could here find the man!"

"That old man!—I have him at my mercy!"

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

"Better to die of despair than to live a lie."

"Thou knowest that I was frank with thee. I felt no love, nor feigned any."

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

"I am not the judge of thine iniquity. I came not to smite thee!"

"If the forest could testify against me, it would not. The very trees would plead in my favor."

"What is this but a mockery and an insult?"

"Fortune, Fate and Destiny had conspired against us to keep us apart"

"I will not lose the child, said Hester, with firm emphasis"

"Thou art not true! said Pearl, grasping his hand. There is a look in thine eye which thou dost not love me"

"Do I feel joy again? asked he within himself"

"Our nature being as it is, we had for a long time ceased to hope"

"Art thou not afraid of nightmares and hideous dreams?"

"What says the black man whispers always at thy side?"