More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Life is made up of marble and mud."
"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."
"Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living."
"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."
"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."