More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"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."
"Life is made up of marble and mud."
"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."
"Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living."
"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."