Nathaniel Hawthorne

"There are persons who are not in the catalogue of the known virtues."

"Some people are born to gather moss, and others are born to be stones."

"The beautiful is the only thing worth living for."

"Misery is a communicative passion."

"One of the greatest beauties of nature is its infinite variety."

"Mankind are not held together by ties of love, but of fear."

"The better part of valor is discretion."

"Life is made up of marble and mud."

"No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow."

"Good men have existed in all ages; but society has never been governed by them."

"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities."

"Americans are free to make money, but they are not free to think."

"We should willingly change nearly all the customs of life if we thoroughly understood how absurd they are."

"There is a radiance about deformity which no physical beauty can rival."

"An individual's right to be heard does not mean he will be believed."

"The mass of humanity lives lives of quiet desperation."

"The tendency to magnify trifles is the common failing of feeble minds."

"We are never allowed to doubt our friends unless we are sure of them."

"Hatred is the payoff of cowardice."

"Love is the greatest teacher in the world."

"The bosom of his family is the true throne of a man."

"Hope is the pillar of the world."

"A person's true nature cannot long be concealed."

"To imagine oneself different is a start toward becoming different."

"The happiness of this life depends upon the composition of the mind."

"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."

"Labor is the cure for sorrow and anxiety."

"The human mind craves novelty and is quickly wearied by routine."

"Whatever we deeply believe in shapes our reality."

"The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost."