Quotes
Quotes - Hawthorne
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.
What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. - Nathaniel Hawthorne,
So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
