Quotes By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.