More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"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."
"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."
"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."