More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, 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."
"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."
"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."
"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."