More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"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."
"Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living."
"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."
"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."