More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."
"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."
"Life is made up of marble and mud."
"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."
"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."