Nathaniel Hawthorne

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

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

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

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.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

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

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.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

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.