More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
"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."
"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."
"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."