Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Nothing is a greater impediment to progress than holding too tightly to what is familiar."
More from Nathaniel Hawthorne
"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."
"We are all fools and knaves in our own fashion."
"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 true."
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool."