More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Life is made up of marble and mud."
"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."
"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."
"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."
"Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living."