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

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."

"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."

"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."