Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel HathorneJuly 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. Use this quote
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. Use this quote
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. Use this quote
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
