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. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness
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. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Good
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. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Relationship
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. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Romantic
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Best
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. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Health
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Friendship
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. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Inspirational
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Respect
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. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Nature
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Death
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Art
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. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Nature
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Courage
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Wisdom
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Poetry
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. -Nathaniel Hawthorne Religion
