Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of livi... - 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."

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."

"Life is made up of marble and mud."

"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."