| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 27095 |
| QUOTATION: | The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), U.S. author. The Scarlet Letter, ch. 1 (1850). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Hawthorne Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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