"This woman has brought shame upon us all and ought to die"

"Stepped into the open air as if by her own free will"

" ...They should have branded Hester Prynne's forehead with a hot iron"

"Hussy"

"She never battled with the public.."

"Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart"

"The Leech"

"He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold"

"That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart"

" I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee...but who is he?"

"Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man’s faculty of transforming himself into a Devil"

"..stood a white man, clad in a strange disarray of civilized and savage costume"