Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.