More quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"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."
"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."
"Life is made up of marble and mud."