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."
"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."
"Life is made up of marble and mud."
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."