More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"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."
"Life is made up of marble and mud."
"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."
"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."