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

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."

"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."

"Life is made up of marble and mud."