Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Sadness is the soul's natural response to loss."

"The true religion is the religion of the heart."

"That faculty of perception which we call imagination, carries with it the seed of all understanding."

"Life owes to us nothing more than we owe to ourselves."

"Individuality is the chief esential of historical dignity of character."

"The most desirable existence is to be free of the necessity of working for bread."

"Young persons, through their capacity to wonder, are the true philosophers."

"Our very worst punishments come to us through the very faculties that might have been our greatest assets."

"All inordinate love of money is the root of universal evil."

"Disease and infirmity have become modern topics of interest for the progressive physician."

"The very essence of poetry is the utterance of the human heart speaking its deepest truths."

"Adventure is the champagne of life if one drinks it in the right spirit."

"The arts are for the expression of the soul's imaginative nature."

"We mistake shadow for substance when we do not look closely at the light."

"A home without love is like a body without a soul."

"Solitude is the soil in which genius is cultivated."

"The greatest teachers are those who themselves have suffered and overcome."

"Affliction is often the path to a deeper understanding of life."

"The heart of another is a dark forest which one enters at one's peril."

"Patience is not passive waiting but active perseverance."

"The human will is the greatest power upon the earth."

"Money speaks a language all understand."

"True patriotism consists in the desire to improve one's country."

"Art reflects the depths of the artist's soul."

"The past always returns to confront the present."

"War is the natural expression of human ambition and pride."

"Some souls are meant to be solitary wanderers."

"Laughter is the best remedy for a troubled spirit."

"The greatest strength lies in admitting one's weaknesses."

"Each age has its proper forms and expressions."