Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Success is the establishment and improvement of oneself."

"We love and suffer in the same breath."

"Every individual has a private world within the human consciousness."

"The path of true wisdom is narrow and difficult to walk."

"In matters of taste and conduct, there is no disputing."

"The depth of friendship is not measured by time, but by sincerity."

"We need to maintain faith in ourselves when the world doubts us."

"A house without books is like a room without windows."

"The human conscience is a sacred thing."

"Nothing good ever comes from idle hands."

"Art allows us to experience the infinite."

"A single grain of conscience is worth more than a shipload of gold."

"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going mad."

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without getting bewildered as to which may be the true."

"We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep."

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

"A writer's true business is with the truth."

"The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."

"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom."

"The heart will not be ruled."

"We are never elevated by contempt of anyone."

"Some of the richest joys of life bloom from the soil of sorrow."

"Great is the human being who has not lost his childlike heart."

"The only sensible ends of literature are the promotion of human enjoyment and the increase of human virtue."

"To live in the world without acquiring the world's characteristics, is like living in the world without breathing."

"I am not, nor ever was, a believer in the sort of institution called charity."

"Every stream has its source somewhere in the hills or mountains."

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream."

"The human soul requires her freedom."