nathaniel hawthorne

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

“ Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release. ”

“ 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. ”

“ But it is a strange experience, to a man of pride and sensibility, to know that his interests are within the control of individuals who neither love nor understand him ”

“ Shall we never never get rid of this Past? It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. ”

“ Ever afterwards so touched, and so transfigured. ”

“ Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!' whispered her mother. 'We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.' ”

“ Few secrets can escape an investigator who has opportunity and license to undertake such a quest and skill to follow it up. ”