About Nathaniel Hawthorne: Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
