Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst... - 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."

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

"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."

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