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

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

"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 is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

"Life is made up of marble and mud."