Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The greatest trust between a man and a woman is established when one freely permitting such spiritual exploration."

"We are so constituted that bad news instinctively takes precedence of good."

"In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy."

"Time flies on the wings of its own momentum."

"To be a writer one must constantly read the works of great minds."

"Selfishness is the only real atheism."

"The heart has its secrets, and the mind cannot always penetrate them."

"Hope is a Christian virtue that cannot be separated from faith."

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures, therefore its the means of accomplishing all things."

"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own."

"Never trust those who speak much of their virtue, or those who claim to have none."

"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable."

"One cannot help hoping that the best will appear in people, though statistics might discourage such faith."

"Each person is responsible for the tone they bring to the world."

"The work of a man is his legacy upon the earth."

"To keep the heart unwounded is the great secret of life."

"What we call real is a particular pattern of sensory experience."

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase."

"The perception of beauty is a moral test."

"Whoever has taken up in any earnest pursuit knows what it is to forget himself."

"If the printed book is soon to become obsolete, one must ask, what then is to be the vehicle of the imagination?"

"Credulity is a dangerous master of the human spirit."

"All noble things are difficult as they are rare."

"The greatest magic is the magic of being oneself."

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."

"We make ourselves sick by continual striving and anxiety."

"In every human heart there is a tomb and a divine flame."

"The human heart conceals all manner of ugliness beneath a fair exterior."

"To be left alone is indeed a species of privation and hurt."

"The secret of our progress is our ability to doubt what everybody knows."